The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 70
“So I did; but though I have searched through the whole forest, there is not a single tree that is as good as this.
Who acts: magpie, single tree · What happens: do, search, be · To what, where: whole forest
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie, single tree), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 searched | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 searched | cc |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 searched | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 searched | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 searched | aux |
| 10 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 did | conj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forest | amod |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 searched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 searched | parataxis |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 tree | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 good | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 good | cop |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 good | advmod |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 good | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | the magpie = magpie | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | search in a quote | present · perfect | the magpie = magpie | the whole forest | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a single tree | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | a single tree | as this; good property | tree rules |
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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