The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 17

In despair she wandered about for days and nights, and at last, worn out by fatigue, she sank once more into a deep sleep, and dreamt exactly the same dream about the old witch.

Who acts: wife · What happens: wander, wear out, sink, dreamt · To what, where: despair, last, more, deep sleep, same dream

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 despair	case
2	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wandered	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nights	cc
9	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 days	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worn	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 worn	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 worn	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 last	punct
15	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wandered	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 worn	compound:prt
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 fatigue	case
18	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worn	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sank	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sank	nsubj
21	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 worn	advcl
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sank	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 sleep	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sleep	det
26	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sleep	amod
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sank	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dreamt	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dreamt	cc
30	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
31	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	34 dream	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dream	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dream	amod
34	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dreamt	obj
35	about	about	ADP	_	38 witch	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 witch	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 witch	amod
38	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dreamt	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	wife		despair	day	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Trajectory
2	wear out	participle			last		by fatigue	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at last=Source
3	sink	past	wife	more	a deep sleep			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent more=Patient
4	dreamt	past	wife not said here	the same dream			about the old witch	tree rules

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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