The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 156
Then he wandered, blind and miserable, through the wood, eating nothing but roots and berries, and weeping and lamenting the loss of his lovely bride.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: wander, eat, weep, lament · To what, where: wood, nothing, loss
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blind | punct |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wandered | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 miserable | cc |
| 7 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blind | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wood | punct |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eating | punct |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wandered | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 eating | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 roots | cc |
| 16 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nothing | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 berries | cc |
| 18 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 roots | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeping | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 weeping | cc |
| 21 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wandered | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lamenting | cc |
| 23 | lamenting | lament | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 weeping | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 loss | det |
| 25 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lamenting | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bride | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bride | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bride | amod |
| 29 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 loss | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Prince | the wood | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | eat | gerund | Prince not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | Prince not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lament | gerund | Prince not said here | the loss of Prince's lovely bride | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus |
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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