The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 121

Far, far away he wandered, over mountains and across rivers, till he reached a village where the people were quite different from those of his own race.

Who acts: youth, people · What happens: wander, reach, be, race · To what, where: mountains, village, those

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, people), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 wandered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Far	punct
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	6 wandered	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wandered	nsubj
6	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mountains	punct
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 mountains	case
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wandered	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rivers	cc
11	across	across	ADP	_	12 rivers	case
12	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mountains	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reached	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 reached	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	nsubj
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wandered	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 village	det
18	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 different	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 different	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 different	cop
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 different	advmod
24	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 village	amod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 those	case
26	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 different	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 race	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 race	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 race	amod
30	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 those	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	youth		mountains and rivers	away, far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory
2	reach	past	youth	a village			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme
3	is	past	the people		those	different property	tree rules
4	race		youth				nom race «event intransitive»: 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 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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