The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 44

I mean to wander as far as the blue sky stretches over the earth till I find them.’

Who acts: I, blue sky · What happens: mean, wander, stretch, find · To what, where: earth, brothers

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 (I, blue sky), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wander	mark
4	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mean	xcomp
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 wander	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 stretches	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sky	amod
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretches	nsubj
11	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 far	advcl
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretches	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 find	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stretches	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mean	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	I				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wander not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch	present	the blue sky		the earth		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Location
4	find	present	I	brothers = brother			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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