The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 115
On and on she wandered over nine seas and across nine continents; through forests with trees whose stems were as thick as beer-barrels; stumbling and knocking herself against the fallen branches, then picking herself up and going on; the boughs of the trees hit her face, and the shrubs tore her hands, but on she went, and never looked back.
Who acts: fate, forests, boughs, shrubs, trees · What happens: wander, be, stumble, knock, fall, pick up · To what, where: nine seas, fate, fallen branches, face, hands
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fate, forests, boughs, shrubs), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 wandered | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wandered | cc |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 wandered | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 nine | advmod |
| 7 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 seas | nummod |
| 8 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandered | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 continents | cc |
| 10 | across | across | ADV | _ | 12 continents | advmod |
| 11 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 continents | nummod |
| 12 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seas | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 forests | punct |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 forests | case |
| 15 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thick | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 forests | nmod |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 stems | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 trees | obj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thick | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 thick | advmod |
| 22 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | ccomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 barrels | case |
| 24 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 barrels | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 beer | punct |
| 26 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thick | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 stumbling | punct |
| 28 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 knocking | cc |
| 30 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 stumbling | conj |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 knocking | obj |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 35 branches | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 branches | det |
| 34 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 branches | amod |
| 35 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 knocking | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 picking | punct |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 picking | advmod |
| 38 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 stumbling | conj |
| 39 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 picking | obj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 picking | compound:prt |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 going | cc |
| 42 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 picking | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 going | compound:prt |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 hit | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 boughs | det |
| 46 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 hit | nsubj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 trees | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 trees | det |
| 49 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 boughs | nmod |
| 50 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | parataxis |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 face | nmod:poss |
| 52 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 hit | obj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 tore | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 tore | cc |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 shrubs | det |
| 56 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 tore | nsubj |
| 57 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 hit | conj |
| 58 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 hands | nmod:poss |
| 59 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 tore | obj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 went | punct |
| 61 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 64 went | cc |
| 62 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 64 went | mark |
| 63 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 went | nsubj |
| 64 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 hit | conj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 looked | punct |
| 66 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 looked | cc |
| 67 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 68 looked | advmod |
| 68 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 64 went | conj |
| 69 | back | back | ADV | _ | 68 looked | advmod |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | fate | nine seas and nine continents | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | forests with trees | as beer barrels; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stumble | gerund | fate not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | knock | gerund | fate not said here | fate | the fallen branches | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme against branch=Destination | |||
| 5 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | pick up | gerund | fate not said here | fate | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 7 | go on | gerund | fate not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hit | past | the boughs of the trees | fate's face | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme | ||||
| 9 | tore | past | the shrubs | fate's hands | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | go | past | fate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 11 | not look back | past | fate not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 12 | stem | trees | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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