The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 129

He did not know where he was or whither he was going, but he never lingered longer in any place than was enough to let his horse get a little food when they came to one of these green spots, while he himself took out his bag of provisions.

Who acts: Halvor, words · What happens: not know, go, not linger, be, let, get · To what, where: place, horse, little food, one, bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, words), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 going	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
9	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	12 going	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lingered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 lingered	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lingered	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 lingered	advmod
17	lingered	linger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 lingered	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lingered	obl
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 enough	case
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 enough	cop
24	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 let	mark
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 get	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horse	nmod:poss
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obj
29	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lingered	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 food	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 food	amod
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obj
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 came	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 get	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 one	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 came	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 spots	case
39	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	41 spots	det
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 spots	amod
41	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 took	punct
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	46 took	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 took	nsubj
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	44 he	nmod:unmarked
46	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 came	conj
47	out	out	ADP	_	46 took	compound:prt
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 bag	nmod:poss
49	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 took	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 provisions	case
51	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 bag	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Halvor					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	past · progressive	Halvor				whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not linger	past	Halvor			any place	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
4	is	past					enough property	tree rules
5	let	to-infinitive		Halvor's horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
6	get	present		a little food				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
7	come	past	words = word		one of this green spots			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location
8	take out	past	Halvor	Halvor's bag of provisions				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

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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