The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 3

He had not wandered far from the shores of the lake, when he noticed a stork standing on one leg, and again he raised his bow and prepared to take aim.

Who acts: boy, stork · What happens: not wander, notice, stand, raise, prepare, take · To what, where: shores, stork, one leg, bow, aim

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, stork), 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	4 wandered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wandered	advmod
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 wandered	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 shores	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shores	det
8	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wandered	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shores	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 noticed	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 noticed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 noticed	nsubj
15	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stork	det
17	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 noticed	obj
18	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stork	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 leg	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 leg	nummod
21	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 standing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 raised	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 raised	cc
24	again	again	ADV	_	26 raised	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 raised	nsubj
26	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 noticed	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bow	nmod:poss
28	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 raised	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 prepared	cc
30	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 raised	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 prepared	xcomp
33	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wander	past · perfect	boy		the shores of the lake		far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shore=Trajectory
2	notice	past	boy	a stork				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	a stork not said here		one leg			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
4	raise	past	boy	boy's bow		again		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
5	prepare	past	boy not said here					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	aim				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=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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