The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 69
He wandered about for three days more, and at the end of the third day saw a little town.
Who acts: Luck · What happens: wander, see · To what, where: more, little town, end
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 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 more | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 wandered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 town | amod |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Luck | more | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | see | past | a little town | at the end of the third day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus |
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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