The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 10

His path led him first through a wood, and he hadn’t gone very far when he met a lean-looking wolf who stood still as he approached.

Who acts: path, father, looking wolf · What happens: lead, not go, meet, look, stand, approach · To what, where: father, wood, looking wolf

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, father, looking wolf), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 path	nmod:poss
2	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 led	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gone	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 gone	advmod
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 led	conj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 gone	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 met	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 met	nsubj
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wolf	det
21	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looking	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 lean	punct
23	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 wolf	amod
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 met	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wolf	acl:relcl
27	still	still	ADV	_	26 stood	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 approached	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 approached	nsubj
30	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stood	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	father's path	father	a wood		first property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through wood=Destination
2	not go	past · perfect	father				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	father	a looking wolf				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent
4	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	stand	past	a looking wolf			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	approach	past	father					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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