The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 51
Then Ferko wandered on for many a long day, and at length reached a strange kingdom.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: wander, reach · To what, where: strange kingdom, length
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Ferko), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | nsubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kingdom | amod |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Ferko | then; day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Ferko not said here | a strange kingdom | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent kingdom=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 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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