The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 65

At the dawn he set out, but he did not go back to the castle, for his heart was heavy, but he wandered far into wild places till his body was weak and thin, and his hair was long.

Who acts: Owen, heart, body, hair · What happens: set out, not go back, be, wander · To what, where: wild places

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, heart, body, hair), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 dawn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dawn	det
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heavy	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 heavy	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heart	nmod:poss
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heavy	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heavy	cop
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 go	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wandered	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 wandered	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wandered	nsubj
26	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	conj
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 wandered	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 places	case
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 places	amod
30	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wandered	obl
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 weak	mark
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 body	nmod:poss
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 weak	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 weak	cop
35	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wandered	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 thin	cc
37	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 weak	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 long	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 long	cc
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hair	nmod:poss
41	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 long	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 long	cop
43	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 weak	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	Owen		dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go back	past · do-support	Owen			to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
3	is	past	Owen's heart			heavy property	tree rules
4	wander	past	Owen	wild places		far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into place=Destination
5	is	past	Owen's body			weak property	tree rules
6	be		Owen's body not said here				tree rules
7	is	past	Owen's hair			long 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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