The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 29
And with that he left them, and wandered about till he found the herb which he wanted.
Who acts: man, herb · What happens: leave, wander, find, want · To what, where: fields, herb
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, herb), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wandered | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wandered | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wandered | cc |
| 9 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 wandered | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wandered | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 herb | det |
| 15 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wanted | nsubj |
| 18 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 herb | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | man | fields = field | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | man | the herb | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Topic | ||||
| 4 | want | past | the herb | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/29/