The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 2
One day he came to a great forest, and as evening drew on he could find no shelter, and could not think where to spend the night.
Who acts: son · What happens: come, draw, find, not think, spend · To what, where: great forest, shelter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drew | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obl |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 drew | ccomp |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 shelter | det |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 think | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 think | cc |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 think | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 think | advmod |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 spend | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 spend | mark |
| 27 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 think | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 night | det |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spend | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | son | a great forest | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | draw | past | son not said here | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | could | son | no shelter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other | could | son not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spend | to-infinitive | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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