The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 7
One day he had wandered far and wide, and was feeling very tired and thirsty.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: wander, feel
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | aux |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wide | cc |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 far | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feeling | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 feeling | aux |
| 12 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | advcl |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feeling | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thirsty | cc |
| 16 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tired | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect | maiden | day | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past · progressive | maiden not said here | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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