The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 9
The king then went forth alone into the wild forest, and wandered there the whole day without seeing a single human being.
Who acts: king · What happens: go, wander, see · To what, where: wild forest
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forest | amod |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wandered | cc |
| 13 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 wandered | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 seeing | mark |
| 19 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wandered | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 human | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 human | amod |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 seeing | xcomp |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 human | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the king | the wild forest | then | alone, forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | wander | past | the king not said here | there | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | gerund | the king not said here | human property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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