The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 38

When the horse had turned a deaf ear to his words the boy wandered idly along, sometimes gathering wild strawberries from a bank, and sometimes plucking wild cherries from a tree, till he reached a clearing in the middle of the forest.

Who acts: boy, horse · What happens: turn, wander, gather, pluck, reach, word · To what, where: horse, wild strawberries, bank, wild cherries, tree, clearing

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, horse), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wandered	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ear	det
7	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ear	amod
8	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 words	nmod:poss
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	nsubj
14	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	idly	idly	ADV	_	14 wandered	advmod
16	along	along	ADV	_	14 wandered	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gathering	punct
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 gathering	advmod
19	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 wandered	advcl
20	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 strawberries	amod
21	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gathering	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 bank	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bank	det
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gathering	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plucking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 plucking	cc
27	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 plucking	advmod
28	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 wandered	advcl
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cherries	amod
30	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 plucking	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plucking	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reached	punct
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 reached	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reached	nsubj
37	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wandered	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 clearing	det
39	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reached	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 middle	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 middle	det
42	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reached	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 forest	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 forest	det
45	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 middle	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect · passive		the horse		to horse's words	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme ear=Result
2	wander	past	the boy			along, idly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	gather	gerund	the boy not said here	wild strawberries	a bank	sometimes property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent strawberry=Theme from bank=Source
4	pluck	gerund	the boy not said here	wild cherries	a tree	sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cherry=Theme from tree=Source
5	reach	past	boy	a clearing	the middle of the forest		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent clearing=Theme
6	word		horse				nom word «communication transitive»: 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 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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