The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 14
He journeyed from day to day, not knowing where he was going, until at last, just at nightfall, he reached a great, gloomy forest.
Who acts: two · What happens: journey, not know, go, reach · To what, where: nightfall, great gloomy forest
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 journeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knowing | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 knowing | advmod |
| 9 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 journeyed | advcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 going | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 knowing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 last | punct |
| 15 | until | until | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 going | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 nightfall | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 nightfall | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 nightfall | case |
| 21 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knowing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reached | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reached | nsubj |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 journeyed | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 forest | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 great | punct |
| 28 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 forest | amod |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | two | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | two not said here | nightfall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | two | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | two | a great gloomy forest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
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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