The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 68
I chanced to come here after long wandering, and found a good place to sleep under this tree.
Who acts: I · What happens: chance, come, find, sleep · To what, where: good place, tree
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 chanced | nsubj |
| 2 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 come | mark |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 chanced | xcomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 wandering | case |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wandering | amod |
| 8 | wandering | wandering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chanced | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 place | acl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | I | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | I not said here | here | after long wandering | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | I not said here | a good place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | I not said here | a good place not said here | this tree | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/68/