The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 82
So they abandoned the crown and forsook their country, not knowing or caring where they went.
Who acts: faults · What happens: abandon, forsake, not know, care, go · To what, where: crown, country
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faults), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 abandoned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 abandoned | nsubj |
| 3 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abandoned | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forsook | cc |
| 7 | forsook | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 abandoned | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forsook | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knowing | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knowing | advmod |
| 12 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 forsook | advcl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 caring | cc |
| 14 | caring | care | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 knowing | conj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 caring | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon | past | faults = fault | the crown | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme crown=Source | ||||
| 2 | forsake | past | faults = fault not said here | faults's country | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | faults = fault not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | care | gerund | faults = fault not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go | past | faults = fault | 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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