The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 86

He thought it would be easy enough to follow the path along which he had come, but somehow it was always branching off in unexpected directions.

Who acts: boy, chase · What happens: think, be, follow, come, branch off · To what, where: path, unexpected directions · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, chase), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	expl
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 follow	mark
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	csubj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follow	obj
12	along	along	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 come	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 path	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 branching	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 branching	cc
19	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	23 branching	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 branching	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 branching	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 branching	advmod
23	branching	branch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	advcl
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 branching	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 directions	case
26	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 directions	amod
27	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 branching	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	boy				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would				easy, enough property	tree rules
3	follow	to-infinitive		the path			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
4	come	past · perfect	boy		the path		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along which=Initial_Location
5	branch off	past · progressive	chase		unexpected directions	always, somehow property	vn differ-23.4 «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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