The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 9
When she awoke next morning she determined to set out and find the witch; so she wandered on for many a day, and at last she reached the flowery meadow and found the hut where the old witch lived.
Who acts: wife, old witch · What happens: awake, determine, set out, find, wander, reach · To what, where: next morning, witch, flowery meadow, last, hut
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, old witch), 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 | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wandered | advcl |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 determined | nsubj |
| 7 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 morning | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 set | mark |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 determined | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 wandered | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wandered | nsubj |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wandered | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 reached | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 reached | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 last | case |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 reached | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 reached | nsubj |
| 29 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wandered | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 meadow | det |
| 31 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 meadow | amod |
| 32 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reached | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 found | cc |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 reached | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hut | det |
| 36 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obj |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 lived | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 witch | det |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 witch | amod |
| 40 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lived | nsubj |
| 41 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hut | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | wife | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | wife | next morning not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | wife not said here | the witch | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wander | past | wife | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reach | past | wife | the flowery meadow | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 7 | find | past | wife not said here | the hut | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Topic | ||||
| 8 | live | past | the old witch | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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