The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 58

He wandered to and fro in the wood, not knowing where he was going, and at last, worn out by fatigue and misery, he sank on the ground and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: wander, fro, not know, go, wear out, sink · To what, where: wood, last, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	2 wandered	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fro	cc
5	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wandered	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fro	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knowing	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 knowing	advmod
11	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fro	advcl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 going	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 knowing	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worn	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 worn	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 worn	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
21	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wandered	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 worn	compound:prt
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 fatigue	case
24	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worn	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 misery	cc
26	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fatigue	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sank	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sank	nsubj
29	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ground	det
32	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sank	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fell	cc
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	conj
35	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 fell	advmod
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fell	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Prince			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	Prince not said here	the wood		tree rules
3	not know	gerund	Prince not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past · progressive	Prince			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wear out	participle		last	by fatigue and misery	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at last=Source
6	sink	past	Prince	the ground		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	fall	past	Prince not said here		asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «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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