The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 42

This dreadful spectacle seemed to take away his senses, and all day long he wandered about, without knowing where he was going, till, in the evening, he noticed some smoke from a little hut of turf near by.

Who acts: dreadful spectacle, head · What happens: seem, take away, wander, know, go, notice · To what, where: senses, smoke, little hut

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful spectacle, head), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spectacle	det
2	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spectacle	amod
3	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	away	away	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 senses	nmod:poss
9	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wandered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wandered	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wandered	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 wandered	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wandered	nsubj
16	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 wandered	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 knowing	punct
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 knowing	mark
20	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 wandered	advcl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 going	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 knowing	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 evening	punct
26	till	till	ADP	_	30 evening	case
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 evening	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 evening	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 evening	det
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 going	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 noticed	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 noticed	nsubj
33	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 smoke	det
35	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 noticed	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	39 hut	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 hut	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hut	amod
39	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 noticed	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 turf	case
41	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hut	nmod
42	near	near	ADV	_	33 noticed	advmod
43	by	by	ADP	_	42 near	fixed
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	this dreadful spectacle					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	take away	to-infinitive	this dreadful spectacle not said here	head's senses				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme
3	wander	past	head			day	about, long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	gerund	head not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	go	past · progressive	head			evening		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	notice	past	head	some smoke	a little hut of turf		near property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus

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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