The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 12

For some days longer he wandered up and down the forest, trying first one path, then another, but his courage at last gave way, and he sank wearily on the ground under a tree, feeling sure his last hour had come.

Who acts: king, courage, last hour · What happens: wander up, try, give, sink, feel, come · To what, where: one path, way, ground

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, courage, last hour), 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	_	3 days	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 longer	obl
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 wandered	advmod
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	up	up	ADV	_	6 wandered	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forest	cc
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wandered	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trying	punct
13	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wandered	advcl
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 path	nummod
16	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trying	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 another	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 another	advmod
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 trying	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 courage	nmod:poss
23	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	nsubj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 courage	nmod
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wandered	conj
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sank	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sank	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sank	nsubj
31	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wandered	parataxis
32	wearily	wearily	ADV	_	31 sank	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 ground	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ground	det
35	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sank	obl
36	under	under	ADP	_	38 tree	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tree	det
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sank	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 feeling	punct
40	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sank	conj
41	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 feeling	xcomp
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hour	nmod:poss
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hour	amod
44	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 come	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 come	aux
46	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 sure	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander up	past	king			long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	gerund	king not said here	one path		another obl	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality
3	give	past	king's courage at last	way			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	sink	past	king		the ground	under a tree; wearily property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	feel	gerund	king not said here			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	come	past · perfect	king's last hour				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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