The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 51

For three days he wandered by the most out- of-the-way paths, but no signs of a tower were to be seen anywhere.

Who acts: boy · What happens: wander, see, sign · To what, where: way paths, signs, tower

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 most	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 most	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 wandered	advmod
9	out	out	ADP	_	16 paths	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 out	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 paths	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 of	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 the	punct
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paths	compound
16	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 seen	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 signs	det
20	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seen	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tower	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tower	det
23	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 signs	nmod
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	27 seen	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wandered	advcl
28	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 seen	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	boy		way paths	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out path=Trajectory
2	see	past · passive		no signs of a tower			anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	sign			a tower				nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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