The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 77

Then he came to a great forest and wandered about in it from morning to night and from night to morning before he got near the other end.

Who acts: Luck · What happens: come, wander, get · To what, where: great forest, forest, other 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 forest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forest	amod
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wandered	cc
9	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 wandered	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wandered	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 morning	case
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 night	cc
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 night	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 morning	case
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandered	obl
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 got	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wandered	advcl
25	near	near	ADP	_	28 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 end	amod
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Luck	a great forest	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	wander	past	Luck not said here	forest	morning; night	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory
3	get	past	Luck		near the other end		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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