The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 264
Then he walked bravely on for many days, having no food but the berries by the wayside, and was in great danger from wild beasts and savage men.
Who acts: mischief · What happens: walk, have, be · To what, where: food, great danger
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mischief), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 having | punct |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 food | det |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 having | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 berries | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 berries | det |
| 15 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 food | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 wayside | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wayside | det |
| 18 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 having | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 danger | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 danger | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 danger | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 danger | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 danger | amod |
| 24 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 beasts | case |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beasts | amod |
| 27 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 danger | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 men | cc |
| 29 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 beasts | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | mischief | then; day | bravely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | mischief not said here | no food but the berries | by the wayside | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | great danger | from wild beasts and savage men | tree rules |
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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