The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 170
After wandering about a long time he reached an island inhabited by mice.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: wonder, reach, inhabit · To what, where: island
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nicholas), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 wandering | mark |
| 2 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandering | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 island | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 mice | case |
| 13 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 inhabited | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | time | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | Nicholas | a island | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inhabit | participle | a island not said here | by mice | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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