The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 72
For long he wandered, and wandered, and wandered, but no child did he see; and one morning his wanderings led him to a forest which was so thick with trees that no light could pass through the branches.
Who acts: child, wanderings, forest, light · What happens: wander, see, lead, be, pass · To what, where: child, forest, trees, branches
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, wanderings, forest, light), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 wandered | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wandered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wandered | cc |
| 7 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wandered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wandered | cc |
| 10 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wandered | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 led | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 morning | nummod |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 led | nsubj |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 led | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 thick | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thick | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 thick | advmod |
| 32 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forest | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 trees | case |
| 34 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 thick | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 pass | obj |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 light | det |
| 37 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pass | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 pass | aux |
| 39 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 trees | acl:relcl |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 branches | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 branches | det |
| 42 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 pass | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | child | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wander | past | child not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | see | past · do-support | no child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | lead | past | child's wanderings | child | a forest | morning | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to forest=Destination | ||
| 6 | is | past | a forest | with trees; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pass | could | no light | trees | the branches | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent that=Theme through branch=Destination | |||
| 8 | wander | child | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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