The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 1

For some weeks Tiidu wandered from one village to another, and proved for himself the truth of the old man’s promise.

Who acts: Tiidu, old man · What happens: wander, prove, promise · To what, where: one village, truth

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 weeks	det
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
4	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 village	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 village	nummod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wandered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proved	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 proved	cc
13	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 proved	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 proved	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	23 promise	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 promise	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 man	case
23	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 truth	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Tiidu		one village	week	to another	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to another=Destination
2	prove	past	Tiidu not said here	the truth of the old man's promise			for Tiidu	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme
3	promise		the old man					nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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