The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 27
But nothing came, not even the baying of a hound or the note of a horn.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: come, not bay, note · To what, where: horn
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 baying | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 baying | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 baying | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baying | det |
| 8 | baying | bay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hound | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hound | det |
| 11 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 baying | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 note | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 note | det |
| 14 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hound | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 horn | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horn | det |
| 17 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 note | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nothing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not bay | gerund | nothing not said here | of a hound or the note of a horn | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | note | a horn | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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