The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 94
But his host returned to the forest to get some food, for the larder was empty.
Who acts: host, larder · What happens: return, get, be · To what, where: food
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 (host, larder), 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 | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 host | nmod:poss |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 returned | advcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 food | det |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 empty | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 empty | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 larder | det |
| 15 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 empty | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 empty | cop |
| 17 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | magician's host | to the forest result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | magician's host not said here | some food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the larder | empty property | tree rules |
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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