The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 36
But as he did not see any other way of getting a bed, he went slowly in.
Who acts: youth, other way · What happens: not see, get, go · To what, where: other way, bed
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, other way), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 way | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 getting | mark |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 getting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · do-support | youth | any other way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | any other way not said here | a bed | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | youth | slowly property | 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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