The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 21
A little farther he meets his sweetheart, my friend River, wandering quietly in the sunshine.
Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: meet, wonder · To what, where: sweetheart, sunshine
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (Drakestail), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farther | obl |
| 3 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 meets | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meets | nsubj |
| 5 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meets | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 River | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 River | nmod:desc |
| 11 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 meets | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandering | punct |
| 13 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 meets | advcl |
| 14 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 13 wandering | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sunshine | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sunshine | det |
| 17 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandering | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Drakestail | Drakestail's sweetheart | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Drakestail not said here | the sunshine | quietly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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