The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 3

So one day he set off, and walked and walked through woods and meadows till when evening came he was very tired, and did not know where to sleep.

Who acts: guardian, evening · What happens: set off, walk, come, be, not know, sleep · To what, where: woods

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardian, evening), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walked	cc
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walked	cc
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 walked	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 woods	case
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 walked	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 meadows	cc
15	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 woods	conj
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 walked	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 tired	advmod
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 know	cc
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 know	advmod
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 set	conj
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 sleep	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sleep	mark
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 know	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	guardian		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	guardian not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past	guardian not said here	woods and meadows			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
4	come	past	evening				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	guardian			tired property	tree rules
6	not know	past · do-support	guardian not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	sleep	to-infinitive	guardian not said here				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 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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