The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 36

Meanwhile his brother had wandered far and wide, and at last he wandered back to the same great city where the other young knight had met with so many adventures.

Who acts: brother, other young knight · What happens: wander, wander back, meet · To what, where: last

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, other young knight), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 wandered	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	aux
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wandered	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wide	cc
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 far	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wandered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wandered	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wandered	nsubj
14	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 wandered	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 city	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 city	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 city	amod
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 city	amod
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	obl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 met	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 knight	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 knight	amod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 knight	amod
25	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 met	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 met	aux
27	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 city	acl:relcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 adventures	case
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 many	advmod
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 adventures	amod
31	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 met	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past · perfect	door's brother		far, meanwhile property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wander back	past	brother	last	to the same great city	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to city=Destination
3	meet	past · perfect	the other young knight		with many adventures	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=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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