The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 13
The poor fellow felt very sad when he had laid her in her grave, and with a heavy heart he wandered into the forest, not knowing where he was going.
Who acts: poor fellow, fellow · What happens: feel, lay, wander, not know, go · To what, where: half, grave, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor fellow, fellow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sad | advmod |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 laid | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laid | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 laid | aux |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laid | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 grave | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grave | nmod:poss |
| 14 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wandered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wandered | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heart | det |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heart | amod |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wandered | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wandered | nsubj |
| 22 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wandered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knowing | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 knowing | advmod |
| 28 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 wandered | advcl |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 going | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 going | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 going | aux |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 knowing | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the poor fellow | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · perfect | fellow | half | half's grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in grave=Destination | |||
| 3 | wander | past | fellow | the forest | with a heavy heart | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination | |||
| 4 | not know | gerund | fellow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | fellow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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