The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 25
From the remotest days men have been wanderers, and wherever they went their stories accompanied them.
Who acts: days men, men, stories · What happens: be, go, accompany · To what, where: wanderers, men
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days men, men, stories), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | remotest | remote | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 men | compound |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wanderers | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wanderers | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 wanderers | cop |
| 8 | wanderers | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wanderers | parataxis |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stories | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 accompanied | nsubj |
| 16 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accompanied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanderers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present · perfect | days men | wanderers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | men = man | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | accompany | past | men's stories | men = man | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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