The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 55
“I am wandering through the country trying to get work,” replied Peter.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: wonder, try, get, reply · To what, where: country, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wandering | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | aux |
| 4 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | obl |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wandering | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · progressive | Peter | the country | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | gerund | Peter not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | work | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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