The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 119
They have sent him here to find out the truth.
What happens: send, find out · To what, where: keeper, truth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 find | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 truth | det |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect · passive | keeper | here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | the truth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |
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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