The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 168
But adventures did not seem very plentiful just then, and he wandered about for a long time without meeting either with fierce giants or distressed damsels.
Who acts: adventures, youth · What happens: not seem, wander, meet, distress
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, youth), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 seem | cc |
| 2 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seem | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seem | advmod |
| 5 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 plentiful | advmod |
| 7 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 then | advmod |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seem | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wandered | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wandered | nsubj |
| 13 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seem | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 wandered | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wandered | obl |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 meeting | mark |
| 20 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wandered | advcl |
| 21 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 meeting | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 giants | case |
| 23 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 giants | amod |
| 24 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meeting | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 damsels | cc |
| 26 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 damsels | amod |
| 27 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 giants | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | past · do-support | adventures | then | plentiful property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wander | past | youth | time | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | gerund | youth not said here | with fierce giants or distressed damsels; either property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with giant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | distress | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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