The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 34

After a time it so happened that another King, having lost his way, passed by with his servants and escort, wondering how he could find his way home, for the forest was very vast.

Who acts: it, King, forest · What happens: happen, lose, pass, wonder, find, be · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, King, forest), 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	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happened	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 happened	advmod
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lost	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
11	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lost	aux
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 happened	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passed	punct
16	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 lost	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 servants	case
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 servants	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 servants	nmod:poss
20	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 passed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 escort	cc
22	escort	escort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 servants	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wondering	punct
24	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 happened	parataxis
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 find	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wondering	ccomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	home	home	ADV	_	28 find	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 vast	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 vast	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 forest	det
35	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 vast	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 vast	cop
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 vast	advmod
38	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 find	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it		time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	gerund · perfect	another King	King's way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	pass	participle	another King not said here			by King's servants and escort	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by servant=Location
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	find	could	King	King's way		home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
6	is	past	the forest			vast property	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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