The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 81

The two enchanted birds wandered sadly on through the meadows.

Who acts: two birds · What happens: be, wander · To what, where: two birds, meadows

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 birds	nummod
3	enchanted	enchant	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 birds	cop
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	7 on	advmod
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 wandered	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 meadows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meadows	det
10	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		two birds					tree rules
2	wander	past	two birds			the meadows			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory

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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