The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 55

He wandered on hardly knowing where he went, and his face was so white and desperate that none of his companions dared speak to him.

Who acts: prisoner, face, none · What happens: wander on, know, go, be, dare, speak · To what, where: prisoner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, face, none), 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 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 wandered	compound:prt
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 knowing	advmod
5	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wandered	advcl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 went	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knowing	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 white	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 white	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 white	advmod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wandered	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 desperate	cc
17	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 white	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 dared	mark
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 dared	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 companions	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 companions	nmod:poss
22	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 none	nmod
23	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 desperate	advcl
24	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dared	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 speak	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wander on	past	prisoner			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	gerund	prisoner not said here		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past	prisoner			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	prisoner's face		white property	tree rules
5	be		prisoner's face not said here			tree rules
6	dare	past	none			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	speak speech: other	infinitive	none not said here	prisoner		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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