The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 5

It wandered peacefully up and down the shore, and never so much as even looked at the poor little tufts of grass, as if it despised such fare.

Who acts: door · What happens: wander, look, despise · To what, where: shore, such fare

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (door), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 wandered	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 down	cc
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 shore	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 much	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 much	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 much	advmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wandered	parataxis
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 looked	mark
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 looked	advmod
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 much	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 tufts	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tufts	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tufts	amod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tufts	amod
21	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 grass	case
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tufts	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 despised	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 despised	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 despised	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 despised	nsubj
28	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	conj
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fare	amod
30	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 despised	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	door		the shore		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down shore=Trajectory
2	look	past	door not said here			at the poor little tufts of grass	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tuft=Theme
3	despise a condition, not said to happen	past	door	such fare			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fare=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 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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