The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 44
Stan wandered, and wandered, and wandered, till he reached to the end of the world, where that which is, is mingled with that which is not, and there he saw, a little way off, a sheepfold, with seven sheep in it.
Who acts: Stan · What happens: wander, reach, mingle, see · To what, where: that, little way
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wandered | cc |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wandered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wandered | cc |
| 8 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wandered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mingled | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 mingled | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mingled | aux |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mingled | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mingled | aux:pass |
| 26 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wandered | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 mingled | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 not | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 not | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 mingled | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saw | cc |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 saw | expl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 way | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 way | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 way | amod |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saw | obl |
| 41 | off | off | ADV | _ | 40 way | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sheepfold | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 sheepfold | det |
| 44 | sheepfold | sheepfold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 way | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 sheep | punct |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 sheep | case |
| 47 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 sheep | nummod |
| 48 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 saw | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 it | case |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 sheep | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Stan | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wander | past | Stan not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | reach | past | Stan | to the end of the world | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mingle | present · passive | that | with that | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with that=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | see | past | Stan | a little way and a sheepfold | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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