The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 116
He wandered about for many days, till he reached a place where food was very scarce, and for a whole week he went without any.
Who acts: Wolverine, food · What happens: wander, reach, be, go · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolverine, food), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wandered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 scarce | advmod |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scarce | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 scarce | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 scarce | advmod |
| 17 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 week | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 week | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 week | amod |
| 23 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 any | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Wolverine | day | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Wolverine | a place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | food | scarce property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Wolverine | week | without any | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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