The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 91
This made the young men start afresh on the search, but they were no more successful than before, and returned sorrowfully to their homes.
Who acts: This, young men, men · What happens: make, start, be, return
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 (This, young men, men), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 start | nsubj |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | ccomp |
| 7 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 start | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 search | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 search | det |
| 10 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afresh | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 successful | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 successful | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 successful | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 successful | cop |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 successful | advmod |
| 17 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 before | case |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 successful | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 returned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 returned | cc |
| 22 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 23 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 22 returned | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 homes | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 homes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 returned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start | present | the young men | afresh property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | men = man | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | past | This not said here | to men's homes result; sorrowfully property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
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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