The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 101
But finding it quite impossible, he went back for the third time to the forest.
Who acts: magician · What happens: find, go back · To what, where: return
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | _ | 5 impossible | cc |
| 2 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 impossible | csubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 finding | obj |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 impossible | advmod |
| 5 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 impossible | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | return | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go back | past | magician | time | to the forest result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result |
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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