The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 34
In his despair he wandered on over the heath, never looking where he put his feet, and full of sorrowful thoughts.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: wander, not look, put, despair · To what, where: despair, feet
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 despair | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 despair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 heath | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heath | det |
| 9 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 looking | advmod |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | advcl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 put | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looking | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 full | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 full | cc |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 thoughts | case |
| 22 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thoughts | amod |
| 23 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 full | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Prince | Prince's despair | over the heath | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not look | gerund | Prince not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | put | past | Prince | Prince's feet | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | ||||
| 4 | despair | Prince | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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