The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 69
I took my dog with me, but he could find no trace of them, though we searched among the bushes till night fell; and then, as I did not know the country and could not find my way home in the dark, I decided to sleep under a tree.
Who acts: I, dog, we, night · What happens: take, find, search, fall, not know, not find · To what, where: dog, trace, bushes, country, way, dark
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dog, we, night), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 trace | det |
| 13 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trace | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 searched | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 searched | mark |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 searched | nsubj |
| 19 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | conj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 bushes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bushes | det |
| 22 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 searched | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 fell | mark |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 searched | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 decided | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 decided | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 decided | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 then | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 know | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 know | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 know | advmod |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 decided | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 country | det |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 know | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 find | cc |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 find | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 find | advmod |
| 40 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 know | conj |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 way | nmod:poss |
| 42 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 find | obj |
| 43 | home | home | ADV | _ | 40 find | advmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 dark | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 dark | det |
| 46 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 find | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 decided | nsubj |
| 49 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 sleep | mark |
| 51 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 decided | xcomp |
| 52 | under | under | ADP | _ | 54 tree | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 tree | det |
| 54 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 sleep | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | my dog | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | could | dog | no trace of sheep | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic | ||||
| 3 | search | past | we | the bushes | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among bush=Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | night | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not know | past · do-support | I | the country | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not find | could | I not said here | my way | the dark | home property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||
| 7 | decide | past | I | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a tree | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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