English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 73
And though he travelled on far away he never forgot that face, and after many days he came back to the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie.
Who acts: harper · What happens: travel, not forget, come back · To what, where: face, bonny mill stream
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harper), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgot | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 travelled | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 4 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgot | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgot | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 forgot | advmod |
| 10 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 face | det |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgot | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgot | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 stream | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stream | det |
| 23 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stream | compound |
| 24 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stream | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 mill | punct |
| 26 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Binnorie | case |
| 28 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 stream | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | harper | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not forget | past | harper | that face | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | harper | the bonny mill stream of Binnorie | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stream=Initial_Location |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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