The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 109

‘I was one day on my travels,’ says the Black Thief, ‘and I came into a large forest, where I wandered a long time, and could not get out of it.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, travel, say, come, wander, not get out · To what, where: one day, Black Thief, large forest, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 day	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	ccomp
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 travels	mark
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 travels	nmod:poss
8	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 day	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Thief	det
13	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Thief	compound
14	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ‘	punct
16	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Thief	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 forest	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 forest	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 forest	amod
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wandered	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 wandered	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wandered	nsubj
27	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wandered	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 get	cc
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 get	advmod
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wandered	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	38 it	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	I	one day			tree rules
2	travel	present	I not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present		the Black Thief and ‘			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
4	come	past	I		a large forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
5	wander	past	I			time	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not get out	could	I not said here	forest			tree rules

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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