The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 94

The boy soon grew tired of walking along the road, and turned off into the woods, where there were bushes he could jump and streams he could wade; but he had not gone far before he met the wolf.

Who acts: boy, bushes · What happens: grow, walk, turn off, be, jump, wade · To what, where: road, woods, streams, wolf

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (boy, bushes), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 walking	mark
7	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tired	advcl
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 turned	compound:prt
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 woods	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woods	det
17	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 were	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	conj
22	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 were	nsubj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 jump	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 jump	aux
25	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bushes	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 streams	cc
27	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 jump	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wade	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 wade	aux
30	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 streams	acl:relcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 gone	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 gone	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gone	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 gone	advmod
36	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 grew	conj
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 gone	advmod
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 met	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 met	nsubj
40	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 gone	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wolf	det
42	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 met	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the boy			soon, tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	gerund	the boy not said here		the road		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
3	turn off	past	the boy not said here		the woods		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	be	past	bushes		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	jump	could	boy	streams			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory
6	wade	could	boy	streams not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory
7	not go	past · perfect	boy			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	meet	past	boy	the wolf			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-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 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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