The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 4

But the fisher’s son took no heed, and off he went, following the sun day after day, till his shoes were in holes and his feet were sore from the journey.

Who acts: son, shoes, holes · What happens: take, go, follow, be · To what, where: heed, holes, journey

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, shoes, holes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisher	det
3	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 fisher	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 heed	det
8	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 went	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 following	punct
15	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	compound
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 day	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 holes	punct
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 holes	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoes	nmod:poss
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 holes	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 holes	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 holes	case
27	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sore	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 feet	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feet	nmod:poss
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 holes	conj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sore	cop
32	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	parataxis
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 journey	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 journey	det
35	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sore	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the fisher's son	no heed				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
2	go	past	son			day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	son's shoes		holes and son's feet			tree rules
5	is	past	holes and son's feet		the journey		sore property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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