The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 88
Towards evening he found himself in a desert, and, look where he would, there was no such thing as a house or a man to be seen.
Who acts: prince, such thing · What happens: find, look, be, see · To what, where: prince, desert
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, such thing), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 desert | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 desert | det |
| 8 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 look | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 found | conj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 would | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 would | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thing | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 man | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 seen | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seen | aux:pass |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 man | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | prince | prince | a desert | evening | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | look | infinitive | prince not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no such thing as a house or a man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | no such thing as a house or a man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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