The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 2

One day he was wandering through a wood all by himself, thinking now of one thing, now of another, till there was nothing else left to think about.

Who acts: musician, nothing · What happens: wonder, think, be, leave, think about · To what, where: wood

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (musician, nothing), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandering	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wandering	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandering	aux
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandering	obl
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 himself	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 wandering	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wandering	conj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 thinking	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 thing	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 thing	nummod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thinking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 another	punct
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 another	advmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 another	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wandering	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 another	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 another	advcl
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 was	nsubj
27	else	else	ADV	_	26 nothing	advmod
28	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 nothing	acl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 think	mark
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 left	xcomp
31	about	about	ADV	_	30 think	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	musician	a wood	day	by musician; of another	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	gerund	musician not said here		now	of one thing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	nothing	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past					tree rules
5	think about speech: other	to-infinitive				about property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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