The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 76
When he had wandered about for a couple of days he found it quite easily.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: wander, find · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | aux |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 couple | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 couple | det |
| 8 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 couple | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 easily | advmod |
| 15 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 12 found | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect | Hunter | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Hunter | head | for a couple of days; easily property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for couple=Beneficiary |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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