The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 96

Unseen he stole out when twilight fell, and for many days he wandered over mountains and through forests and valleys without knowing where he was going or what he should do.

Who acts: Unseen, twilight, prince · What happens: steal out, fall, wander, know, go, do · To what, where: mountains

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unseen, twilight, prince), 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	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stole	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 stole	compound:prt
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fell	advmod
6	twilight	twilight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wandered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wandered	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wandered	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wandered	nsubj
14	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	conj
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 mountains	case
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wandered	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 forests	cc
18	through	through	ADP	_	19 forests	case
19	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mountains	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 valleys	cc
21	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mountains	conj
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 knowing	mark
23	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 wandered	advcl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 going	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 knowing	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 do	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 do	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	steal out	past	Unseen			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	twilight			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wander	past	prince	mountains and forests and valleys	day	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory
4	know	gerund	prince not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	go	past · progressive	prince			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	should	prince			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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