The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 36

One day the Prince went out hunting, and going in pursuit of a wild boar he soon lost the other huntsmen, and found himself quite alone in the middle of a dark wood.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: go out, go, lose, find, pursue · To what, where: hunting, pursuit, other huntsmen, Prince, middle, wild boar

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 going	cc
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 pursuit	case
12	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 boar	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boar	det
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boar	amod
16	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pursuit	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lost	nsubj
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 lost	advmod
19	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boar	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 huntsmen	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 huntsmen	amod
22	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lost	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 found	obj
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 alone	advmod
28	alone	alone	ADV	_	25 found	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 middle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 middle	det
31	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 wood	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 wood	det
34	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wood	amod
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 middle	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the Prince	hunting		day		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	gerund	the Prince not said here		pursuit of a wild boar			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location
3	lose	past	Prince	the other huntsmen			soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Eventuality
4	find	past	the Prince not said here	Prince	the middle of a dark wood		alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
5	pursue			a wild boar				nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/27/36/