The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 33
And so the Prince wandered on for another year, always on the same road, and at last reached the hut where he found the third old man.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: wander, reach, find · To what, where: same road, hut, last, third old man
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wandered | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 road | punct |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 road | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reached | obl |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hut | det |
| 22 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 found | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hut | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 27 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 man | amod |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the Prince | the same road | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | the Prince not said here | the hut | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hut=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 3 | find | past | Prince | the third old man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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