The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 16

He took the first path he could find, and after walking for a long time he fancied he saw a faint light, and began to hope that he was coming to some cottage where he might find shelter for the night.

Who acts: two · What happens: take, find, walk, fancy, see, begin · To what, where: first path, long time, faint light, cottage, shelter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 path	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 path	amod
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 path	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walking	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 walking	mark
12	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 took	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fancied	nsubj
18	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 time	acl:relcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 time	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 light	det
22	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 light	amod
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hope	mark
28	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 coming	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 coming	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 coming	aux
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 hope	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 cottage	case
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 cottage	det
35	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coming	obl
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 find	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 find	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 find	aux
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 cottage	acl:relcl
40	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 find	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 night	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 night	det
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 find	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	two	the first path			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	find	could	two	the first path not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic
3	walk	gerund	two not said here			time	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fancy	past	two	a long time not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus
5	see	past	two	a faint light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
6	begin	past	two not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	hope	to-infinitive	two not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	come	past · progressive	two		some cottage		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location
9	find	might	two	shelter		night	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic

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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