The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 70
During this time he wandered into many strange places, and had many adventures; and one day he came to a hut where a young girl lived.
Who acts: Carrier, young girl · What happens: wander, have, come, live · To what, where: many strange places, many adventures, hut
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 (Carrier, young girl), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 places | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 places | amod |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 places | amod |
| 9 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 adventures | amod |
| 14 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hut | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hut | det |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 lived | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 girl | amod |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hut | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Carrier | many strange places | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into place=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | past | Carrier not said here | many adventures | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Carrier | a hut | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | live | past | a young girl | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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