The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 28

He longed to get to it, but how? neither road nor bridge was anywhere to be seen, yet the city drew him upwards, and he felt that here at last was the country which he sought.

Who acts: city, road, last country · What happens: long, get, be, see, draw, feel · To what, where: air, Scarcely, last country

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, road, last country), 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 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 anywhere	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 anywhere	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 anywhere	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 road	punct
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 road	cc:preconj
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anywhere	nsubj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 bridge	cc
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 road	conj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 anywhere	cop
16	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 longed	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	19 seen	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 seen	aux:pass
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 anywhere	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drew	punct
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	24 drew	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 city	det
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 longed	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drew	obj
26	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	24 drew	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 felt	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 felt	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 felt	nsubj
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 longed	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 here	mark
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 felt	advcl
33	at	at	ADP	_	37 country	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 country	amod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 country	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 country	det
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 felt	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 sought	nsubj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sought	nsubj
40	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 country	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	long	past	city					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	city not said here		air			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result
3	is	past	road nor bridge				anywhere property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	road nor bridge not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	draw	past	the city	Scarcely			upwards property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	feel	past	city					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	past				the last country		tree rules
8	seek	past	the last country					vn hunt-35.1 «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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