The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 4

The maiden wandered about the wood till nightfall, when she came in the same way to the old man’s house, and asked for food and a night’s lodging.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: wander, come, ask · To what, where: same way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	obl
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 nightfall	case
8	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	22 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 man	case
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 asked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 asked	cc
25	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 food	case
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asked	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lodging	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lodging	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 night	case
32	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 food	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the maiden		till nightfall	about the wood	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Trajectory
2	come	past	maiden	the same way		to the old man's house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past				for food and a night's lodging	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 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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