The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 24
For the whole day they wandered through meadows and forests, till in the evening they reached a house.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: wander, reach · To what, where: meadows, house
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 (eyes), 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 | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wandered | nsubj |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 meadows | case |
| 8 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wandered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forests | cc |
| 10 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meadows | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wandered | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | eyes = eye | meadows and forests | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | eyes = eye | a house | evening | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=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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