The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 15
The boy was glad of company and they went on, and on, and on, through seven kingdoms, without finding anything they were able to do.
Who acts: boy, soldiers · What happens: be, go on, find, do · To what, where: seven kingdoms, anything
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, soldiers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 company | case |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glad | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 on | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 on | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 on | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 on | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 on | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kingdoms | punct |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 kingdoms | case |
| 19 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 kingdoms | nummod |
| 20 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 finding | punct |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 finding | mark |
| 23 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 finding | obj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 able | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 able | cop |
| 27 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 anything | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 able | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | of company; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | soldiers = soldier | seven kingdoms | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through kingdom=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | soldiers = soldier not said here | anything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | soldiers = soldier | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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