The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 4
One night a peasant who was returning home from a feast wandered a little farther into the Tontlawald, and came back with the same story.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: return, wander, come back · To what, where: feast
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 peasant | det |
| 4 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 returning | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returning | aux |
| 7 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 peasant | acl:relcl |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 returning | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returning | obl |
| 12 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 farther | obl |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 wandered | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 Tontlawald | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tontlawald | det |
| 18 | Tontlawald | Tontlawald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 farther | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wandered | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 story | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 story | amod |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · progressive | a peasant | a feast | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from feast=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wander | past | a peasant | night | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | come back | past | a peasant not said here | with the same story | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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