The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 7
After travelling for two or three days, he grew tired of walking without knowing where or for how long, and he stopped at an inn which was filled with merrymakers and ordered something to eat and drink.
Who acts: man · What happens: travel, grow, walk, know, stop, fill · To what, where: inn, something
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 travelling | mark |
| 2 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 grew | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 three | cc |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 two | conj |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travelling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelling | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 walking | mark |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 tired | advcl |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 knowing | mark |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 walking | advcl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 long | advmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 long | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 long | case |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 knowing | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stopped | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stopped | nsubj |
| 24 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 inn | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 inn | det |
| 27 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stopped | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 filled | aux:pass |
| 30 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 inn | acl:relcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 merrymakers | case |
| 32 | merrymakers | merrymaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 filled | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ordered | cc |
| 34 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stopped | conj |
| 35 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 ordered | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 eat | mark |
| 37 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 something | acl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 drink | cc |
| 39 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 eat | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | man not said here | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | man | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | gerund | man not said here | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | man | a inn | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location | ||||
| 6 | fill | past · passive | a inn | with merrymakers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with merrymaker=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | order | past | man not said here | something | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 8 | eat | to-infinitive | man not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | drink | infinitive | man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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