The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 2

He walked through the forest for several days without seeing anyone but his friends the squirrels and the bears and the birds, but though he stopped and spoke to them all, he was careful not to let them know where he was going.

Who acts: He, friends · What happens: walk, see, stop, speak, be, not let · To what, where: forest, anyone, birds, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, friends), 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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obl
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 seeing	mark
10	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 seeing	obj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 friends	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friends	nmod:poss
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seeing	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 squirrels	det
16	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 friends	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bears	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bears	det
19	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 friends	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 birds	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 birds	det
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 friends	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 stopped	cc
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 stopped	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stopped	nsubj
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spoke	cc
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stopped	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	obl
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 them	nmod:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 careful	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 careful	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 careful	cop
36	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walked	conj
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 let	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 let	mark
39	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 careful	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 let	obj
41	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 let	xcomp
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 going	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 going	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 going	aux
45	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 know	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	He			the forest	day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	see	gerund	He not said here	anyone					tree rules
3	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	past	he not said here		birds = bird				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
5	is	past	he					careful property	tree rules
6	not let	to-infinitive	he not said here	friends = friend					tree rules
7	know	infinitive	friends = friend not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	go	past · progressive	he						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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