The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 47
For months and months he wandered about, first in this direction and then in that, without finding any traces of the dragon or his captive.
Who acts: servant · What happens: wander, find · To what, where: direction, traces
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 months | case |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wandered | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 months | cc |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 months | conj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wandered | nsubj |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 wandered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 first | punct |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 wandered | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 direction | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 direction | det |
| 12 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 that | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 that | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wandered | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 finding | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 finding | mark |
| 19 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wandered | advcl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 traces | det |
| 21 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 finding | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dragon | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dragon | det |
| 24 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 traces | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 captive | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 captive | nmod:poss |
| 27 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dragon | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | servant | this direction | month | about, first property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | find | gerund | servant not said here | any traces of the dragon or dragon's captive | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
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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