The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 61

But he wandered through the world and told stories; though they are not so merry as the one he told about the matches.

Who acts: spark, Biscuits · What happens: wander, tell, not be · To what, where: world, stories, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spark, Biscuits), 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	_	3 wandered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 merry	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 merry	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 merry	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 merry	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 merry	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 merry	advmod
16	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wandered	parataxis
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 merry	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 matches	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 matches	det
24	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 told	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	spark		the world		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	past	spark not said here	stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	not is	present	Biscuits = biscuit			as the one; merry property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	spark	the one not said here		about the matches	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient about match=Topic

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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