The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 11

Presently, after walking wildly up and down, he wrote these verses upon the sand with his stick:

Who acts: pilot · What happens: walk, write · To what, where: verses

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (pilot), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	11 wrote	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Presently	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 walking	mark
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 wrote	advcl
5	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 walking	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 down	cc
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 up	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walking	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrote	nsubj
11	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 verses	det
13	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wrote	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 sand	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sand	det
16	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrote	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 stick	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stick	nmod:poss
19	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sand	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund	pilot not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	past	pilot	this verses				upon the sand with pilot's stick; presently property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=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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