The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 59
His thoughts now turned to the mountain, and he secretly made preparations for his journey.
Who acts: thoughts, Peter · What happens: turn, make, think, journey · To what, where: mountain, preparations
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, Peter), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 11 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 12 made | advmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 13 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Peter's thoughts | the mountain | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | past | Peter | preparations | for Peter's journey; secretly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for journey=Asset | |||
| 3 | think | Peter | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | journey | Peter | nom journey «act 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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