The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 20

Then he vanished, and the young man could not tell where he had gone.

Who acts: stranger, young man, man · What happens: vanish, not tell, go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, young man, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 vanished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vanished	nsubj
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 vanished	conj
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 gone	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 tell	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	vanish	past	stranger	then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	could	the young man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past · perfect	man		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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