The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 62
He walked and walked till he got beyond his own country, and he wandered through a wood for three days but did not meet a living being in it.
Who acts: Luck · What happens: walk, get, wander, not meet · To what, where: wood, living
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Luck), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 got | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | advcl |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wandered | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wandered | nsubj |
| 15 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wandered | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wandered | obl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 meet | cc |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 meet | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 meet | advmod |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wandered | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 living | det |
| 27 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meet | obj |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 living | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 being | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Luck | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | Luck not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past | Luck | beyond Luck's own country | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | wander | past | Luck | a wood | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | not meet | past · do-support | Luck not said here | a living | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Co-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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