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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | aux |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 usual | case |
| 8 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 farther | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | parataxis |
| 12 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 farmyard | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 farmyard | det |
| 15 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 close | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 pleased | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 pleased | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 horses | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 horses | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 horses | cop |
| 27 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 grass | case |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 grass | amod |
| 30 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 plenty | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 horses | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 horses | det |
| 33 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandered | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 determined | nsubj |
| 35 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 horses | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 spend | mark |
| 37 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 determined | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spend | obj |
| 40 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 spend | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect | Iwanich | day | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | for the horses | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | determine | past | Iwanich | the horses not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spend | to-infinitive | Iwanich not said here | there | day | vn 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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