The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 44

Then she asked where he had been wandering so long, and he told her how he had lost his way and might never have reached home at all but for a strange creature, half-man, half-hedgehog, which rode a cock and sat up in a tree making lovely music, and which had shown him the right way.

Who acts: daughter, Jack, half hedgehog · What happens: ask, wonder, tell, lose, not reach, ride · To what, where: daughter, way, all, cock, tree, lovely music · 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 (daughter, Jack, half hedgehog), 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 asked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 wandering	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wandering	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wandering	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 wandering	aux
8	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asked	ccomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 wandering	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 lost	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lost	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lost	aux
19	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	ccomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lost	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reached	cc
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 reached	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 reached	advmod
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 reached	aux
26	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 lost	conj
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 reached	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 reached	obl
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 creature	cc
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 creature	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 creature	det
33	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 creature	amod
34	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
36	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 man	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 half	punct
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 creature	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hedgehog	punct
40	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	42 hedgehog	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 half	punct
42	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 creature	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rode	punct
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 rode	nsubj
45	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hedgehog	acl:relcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 cock	det
47	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rode	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sat	cc
49	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 rode	conj
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 sat	compound:prt
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 tree	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 tree	det
53	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sat	obl
54	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 sat	advcl
55	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 music	amod
56	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 making	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 shown	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 shown	cc
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 shown	nsubj
60	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 shown	aux
61	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 asked	conj
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 shown	obj
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 way	det
64	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 way	amod
65	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 shown	obl:unmarked
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	daughter				then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wonder speech: ask	past · perfect · progressive	Jack					long property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	Jack		daughter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lose	past · perfect	Jack	Jack's way					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
5	not reach	might · perfect	Jack not said here			all		home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	ride	past	half hedgehog	a cock					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme
7	sit up	past	half hedgehog not said here			a tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
8	make	gerund	half hedgehog not said here	lovely music					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product
9	show	past · perfect			Jack			the right way obl:unmarked	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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