The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 32
In this way they journeyed by day and encamped safely at night, always remembering to take on a few branches to provide them with food and shelter.
Who acts: Princes · What happens: journey, encamp, remember, take, provide · To what, where: way, few branches, Princes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journeyed | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 journeyed | nsubj |
| 5 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journeyed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 encamped | cc |
| 9 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journeyed | conj |
| 10 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 9 encamped | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 encamped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remembering | punct |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 remembering | advmod |
| 15 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 encamped | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 remembering | xcomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 branches | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 branches | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 branches | amod |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 provide | mark |
| 23 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 provide | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 food | case |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 provide | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shelter | cc |
| 28 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 food | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Princes = prince | this way | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | encamp | past | Princes = prince not said here | night | safely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | remember | gerund | Princes = prince not said here | always property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Princes = prince not said here | a few branches | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on branch=Destination | ||||
| 5 | provide | to-infinitive | Princes = prince not said here | Princes = prince | with food and shelter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with food=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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