The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 65

He walked many hours, whistling and calling for it, but it never came, and he went sadly home, resolved to be out with the dawn and never to rest till he had brought the wanderer back.

Who acts: man, bird · What happens: walk, whistle, call, not come, go, resolve · To what, where: wanderer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, bird), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hours	amod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whistling	punct
6	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 calling	cc
8	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 whistling	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 calling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 came	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
20	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	21 home	advmod
21	home	home	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 resolved	punct
23	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 went	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 out	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 out	cop
26	out	out	ADV	_	23 resolved	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 dawn	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dawn	det
29	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 out	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rest	cc
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 rest	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 rest	mark
33	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 out	conj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 brought	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brought	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 brought	aux
37	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 rest	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wanderer	det
39	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brought	obj
40	back	back	ADV	_	37 brought	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	man		hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whistle	gerund	man not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	gerund	man not said here			for bird	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for it=Recipient
4	not come	past	bird				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past	man			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	resolve	participle	man not said here				tree rules
7	is	to-infinitive			dawn	out property	tree rules
8	not rest	to-infinitive					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	bring back	past · perfect	man	the wanderer			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wanderer=Theme

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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