The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 2
As he was wandering down one path which had looked at first more hopeful than the rest he saw a man coming towards him.
Who acts: king, man · What happens: wonder down, look, see, come · To what, where: one path, hopeful, man
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, man), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 wandering | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | aux |
| 4 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 wandering | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 path | nummod |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | aux |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 path | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 hopeful | case |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 hopeful | advmod |
| 14 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 rest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rest | det |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hopeful | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rest | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 man | acl |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 coming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder down speech: ask | past · progressive | king | one path | down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past · perfect · passive | one path | hopeful | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | past | king | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | a man not said here | towards king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location |
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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