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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 71

Another day he had wandered farther than usual, and came close to a farmyard; the place pleased the Prince, and as there was plenty of good grass for the horses he determined to spend the day there.

Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: wander, come, be, determine, spend · To what, where: horses

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 (Iwanich), 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

detobl:unmarkednsubjauxadvmodcaseoblpunctccparataxisadvmodcasedetoblpunctdetnsubjconjdetappospunctccmarkexplcopnsubjcaseamodnmodcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompdetobjadvmodpunctrootAnotherDETdayNOUNhePRONhadAUXwanderedVERBfartherADVthanADPusualADJ,PUNCTandCCONJcameVERBcloseADVtoADPaDETfarmyardNOUN;PUNCTtheDETplaceNOUNpleasedADJtheDETPrincePROPN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJtherePRONwasAUXplentyNOUNofADPgoodADJgrassNOUNforADPtheDEThorsesNOUNhePRONdeterminedVERBtoPARTspendVERBtheDETdayNOUNthereADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AnotheranotherDETPronType=Ind2 daydet
2daydayNOUNNumber=Sing5 wanderedobl:unmarked
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 wanderednsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 wanderedaux
5wanderedwanderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
6fartherfarADVDegree=Cmp5 wanderedadvmod
7thanthanADP_8 usualcase
8usualusualADJDegree=Pos6 fartherobl
9,,PUNCT_11 camepunct
10andandCCONJ_11 camecc
11camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 wanderedparataxis
12closecloseADVDegree=Pos11 cameadvmod
13totoADP_15 farmyardcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 farmyarddet
15farmyardfarmyardNOUNNumber=Sing12 closeobl
16;;PUNCT_19 pleasedpunct
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 placedet
18placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 pleasednsubj
19pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Pos5 wanderedconj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Princedet
21PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing19 pleasedappos
22,,PUNCT_33 horsespunct
23andandCCONJ_33 horsescc
24asasSCONJ_26 wasmark
25theretherePRONPronType=Dem26 wasexpl
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 horsescop
27plentyplentyNOUNNumber=Sing26 wasnsubj
28ofofADP_30 grasscase
29goodgoodADJDegree=Pos30 grassamod
30grassgrassNOUNNumber=Sing27 plentynmod
31forforADP_33 horsescase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 horsesdet
33horseshorseNOUNNumber=Plur5 wanderedobl
34hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 determinednsubj
35determineddetermineVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 horsesacl:relcl
36totoPART_37 spendmark
37spendspendVERBVerbForm=Inf35 determinedxcomp
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 daydet
39daydayNOUNNumber=Sing37 spendobj
40therethereADVPronType=Dem37 spendadvmod
41..PUNCT_5 wanderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wanderpast · perfectIwanichdayfar propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2comepastclose propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3ispastfor the horsestree rules
4determinepastIwanichthe horses not said heretree rules
5spendto-infinitiveIwanich not said heretheredayvn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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