The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 68
They walked all day without ending a human habitation, and became very tired.
Who acts: retainers · What happens: walk, end, become · To what, where: human habitation
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (retainers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 ending | mark |
| 6 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 walked | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 habitation | det |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 habitation | amod |
| 9 | habitation | habitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ending | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | retainers = retainer | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | end | gerund | retainers = retainer not said here | a human habitation | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality habitation=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | become | past | retainers = retainer not said here | tired property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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