The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 80

After that the neighbours went out with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond, but they found nothing, and then Dame Ilse gave up the idea of ever seeing her husband again and very soon consoled herself, only wondering how the sacks of corn were to be carried to the mill in future.

Who acts: neighbours, Dame, idea · What happens: go out, find, give up, see, console, wonder · To what, where: nothing, idea, husband, Dame, sacks, future

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours, Dame, idea), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 went	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbours	det
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 poles	case
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poles	amod
9	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 fish	case
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poles	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 ditch	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 ditch	det
14	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pond	cc
16	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ditch	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 found	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 gave	advmod
25	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 gave	nsubj
26	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Dame	flat
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 gave	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 idea	det
30	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 seeing	mark
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 seeing	advmod
33	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 idea	acl
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 husband	nmod:poss
35	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seeing	obj
36	again	again	ADV	_	40 consoled	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 consoled	cc
38	very	very	ADV	_	40 consoled	advmod
39	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 consoled	advmod
40	consoled	console	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 seeing	advcl
41	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 consoled	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 wondering	punct
43	only	only	ADV	_	44 wondering	advmod
44	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 seeing	conj
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	53 carried	advmod
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sacks	det
47	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 carried	nsubj:pass
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 corn	case
49	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sacks	nmod
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 carried	aux:pass
51	to	to	PART	_	53 carried	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 carried	aux:pass
53	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 wondering	advcl
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 mill	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 mill	det
56	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 carried	obl
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 future	case
58	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 carried	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the neighbours			after that	with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with pole=Co-Agent
2	find	past	neighbours = neighbour	nothing				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	give up	past	Dame	the idea		then		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source
4	see	gerund	the idea not said here	Dame's husband		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
5	console	participle	the idea not said here	Dame		again	soon property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the idea not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	carry	past · passive		the sacks of corn	future		to the mill	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mill=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/80/