The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 53
Another day, as he journeyed on, he saw a raven in great distress.
Who acts: compliment · What happens: journey, see · To what, where: raven, great distress
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (compliment), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 journeyed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 journeyed | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 journeyed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 journeyed | nsubj |
| 6 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 journeyed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 journeyed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 raven | det |
| 12 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 distress | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 distress | amod |
| 15 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | compliment | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | compliment | a raven | great distress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus |
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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