The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 169

Now, fifteen years before this time, the father in walking through the forest found a little girl, who had been deserted by the gypsies.

Who acts: father, fifteen years, gypsies · What happens: walk, find, desert · To what, where: forest, little girl

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, fifteen years, gypsies), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 found	nsubj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 years	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 father	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 father	det
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	appos
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 walking	mark
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 father	acl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 girl	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 girl	amod
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 deserted	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 deserted	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 deserted	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 deserted	aux:pass
24	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 girl	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 gypsies	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gypsies	det
27	gypsies	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 deserted	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	walk	gerund	the father not said here		the forest		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	find	past	fifteen years before this time	a little girl		now	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic
3	desert	past · perfect · passive	the gypsies	a little girl			vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme subject=Source

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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