The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 60
He had been wandering in a forest one day for several hours, and when evening approached, he suddenly felt very hungry.
Who acts: Peronnik, evening · What happens: wonder, approach, feel · To what, where: forest
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, evening), 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 | 4 wandering | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wandering | aux |
| 4 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | obl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hours | case |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hours | amod |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 day | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 felt | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 approached | advmod |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 approached | nsubj |
| 17 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 felt | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 approached | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 21 felt | advmod |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 hungry | advmod |
| 23 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 felt | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · perfect · progressive | Peronnik | a forest | day | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | approach | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Peronnik | hungry, suddenly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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