The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 73

He wandered on for many days, till at length he came to the town where the king had his court.

Who acts: Ciccu, king · What happens: wander, come, have · To what, where: town, court

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 wandered	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	till	till	ADP	_	10 length	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 had	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 town	acl:relcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 court	nmod:poss
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wander	past	Ciccu			day	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Ciccu		the town	till length	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
3	have	past	the king	Ciccu's court			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=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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