The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 8

The youth left his home with tears in his eyes, not knowing where to go, and wandered about for many hours till he came to a thick wood.

Who acts: youth · What happens: leave, not know, go, wander, come · To what, where: home, eyes, thick wood

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 home	nmod:poss
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 tears	case
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knowing	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 knowing	advmod
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 left	advcl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 go	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knowing	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wandered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wandered	cc
19	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 wandered	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 hours	case
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hours	amod
23	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wandered	obl
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wandered	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 wood	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wood	det
29	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wood	amod
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the youth	youth's home	youth's eyes		with tears	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme in eye=Location
2	not know	gerund	the youth not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	to-infinitive	the youth not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wander	past	the youth not said here			hour	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	youth		a thick wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=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 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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