The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 20

All this time Souci had been wandering through the world with his precious thread carefully fastened round him, seeking every possible and impossible place where his beloved princess might chance to be.

Who acts: precious thread, beloved princess · What happens: wonder, fasten, seek, chance · To what, where: world, possible place

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (precious thread, beloved princess), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandering	obl
4	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 time	appos
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wandering	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 wandering	aux
7	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandering	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 thread	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 thread	nmod:poss
13	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thread	amod
14	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandering	obl
15	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	16 fastened	advmod
16	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thread	acl:relcl
17	round	round	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fastened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seeking	punct
20	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wandering	conj
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 place	det
22	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 place	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 impossible	cc
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 possible	conj
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seeking	obj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 chance	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 princess	nmod:poss
28	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 princess	amod
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chance	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 chance	aux
31	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 place	nmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 be	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 chance	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wandering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · perfect · progressive			the world	time	with Souci's precious thread	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fasten	past	Souci's precious thread not said here				round Souci; carefully property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	seek	gerund		every possible place				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	chance	might	Souci's beloved princess					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 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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