The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 27

The stories wandered wherever the Buddhist missionaries went, and the earliest French voyageurs told them to the Red Indians.

Who acts: stories, Buddhist missionaries, earliest French voyageurs · What happens: wander, go, tell · To what, where: stories · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stories, Buddhist missionaries, earliest French voyageurs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 missionaries	det
6	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 missionaries	amod
7	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 voyageurs	det
12	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 voyageurs	amod
13	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 voyageurs	amod
14	voyageurs	voyageur	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 Indians	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Indians	det
19	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Indians	compound
20	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 told	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the stories			tree rules
2	go	past	the Buddhist missionaries		wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the earliest French voyageurs	stories = story	to the Red Indians	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to indian=Recipient

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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