The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 18
For a long time he bewailed his sad fate like this, and then, seeing that it was growing dark, and that still there was no sign of the Princess, he set out as fast as he could in the direction of the town.
Who acts: face, fate, that · What happens: bewail, see, grow, be, set out, fate · To what, where: sad fate, sign, direction
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, fate, that), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bewailed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bewailed | nsubj |
| 6 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fate | amod |
| 9 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bewailed | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fate | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seeing | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 seeing | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bewailed | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 growing | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 growing | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 growing | aux |
| 20 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 seeing | advcl |
| 21 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 growing | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sign | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sign | cc |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 sign | nsubj |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 was | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 was | expl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sign | cop |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 sign | det |
| 29 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bewailed | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Princess | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Princess | det |
| 32 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sign | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 set | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 set | nsubj |
| 35 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sign | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 set | compound:prt |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 fast | advmod |
| 38 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 set | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 could | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 could | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 fast | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 direction | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 direction | det |
| 44 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 town | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 town | det |
| 47 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 direction | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewail | past | face | face's sad fate | time | like this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | see | gerund | face not said here | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · progressive | fate | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | that | no sign | of the Princess | tree rules | |||
| 5 | set out | past | face | the direction of the town | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | fate | face | like this | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent like=obl |
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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