The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 36
Twice he returned to the forest in the hopes of finding her, but this time fortune failed him, and he went home as sad as ever.
Who acts: prince, hopes, time fortune · What happens: return, find, fail, go · To what, where: hopes, forest, prince
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 (prince, hopes, time fortune), 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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hopes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hopes | det |
| 9 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 finding | mark |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hopes | acl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 finding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 failed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 failed | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 fortune | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fortune | compound |
| 17 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 failed | nsubj |
| 18 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 failed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 failed | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 sad | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 sad | advmod |
| 26 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 went | xcomp |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 ever | case |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 sad | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | prince | the hopes | to the forest result; twice property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | the hopes not said here | forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fail | past | this time fortune | prince | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go | past | prince | sad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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