The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 89
But in her blind haste she often missed the path, and she wandered for several hours before she at length reached the little house.
Who acts: woman · What happens: miss, wander, reach · To what, where: path, blind haste, little house, length
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 (woman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 missed | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 haste | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 haste | nmod:poss |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 haste | amod |
| 5 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 missed | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 missed | nsubj |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 missed | advmod |
| 8 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 path | det |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 missed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wandered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wandered | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wandered | nsubj |
| 14 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 missed | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 hours | case |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hours | amod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wandered | obl |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obl |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wandered | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 house | amod |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | woman | the path | woman's blind haste | often property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | wander | past | woman | hour | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | woman | the little house | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme at length=Asset |
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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