The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 53
The Princess, having wandered in vain up and down the forest, stopped at last on the edge of a fountain.
What happens: wander, stop · To what, where: Princess, vain, last
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | aux |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | obl |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forest | cc |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 up | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stopped | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 edge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 edge | det |
| 19 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stopped | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fountain | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fountain | det |
| 22 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 edge | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | gerund · perfect · passive | the Princess | vain | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | last | on the edge of a fountain | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
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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