The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 21
Ferko wandered out into the fields again, and sat down on the stump of a tree wondering what he should do next.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: wander out, sit down, wonder, do · To what, where: fields, stump · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wandered | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stump | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stump | det |
| 14 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stump | nmod |
| 18 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sat | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 do | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wondering | ccomp |
| 23 | next | next | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander out | past | Ferko | the fields | again | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination | ||
| 2 | sit down | past | the stump of a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | do | should | Ferko | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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