The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 47
However, it was no use thinking of that, so he rode forward steadily.
Who acts: heart, use, Peter · What happens: be, think, ride · To what, where: use
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: who acts (heart, use, Peter), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 13 rode | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 use | det |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 However | ccomp |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 use | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thinking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 rode | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rode | nsubj |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 rode | advmod |
| 15 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 13 rode | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | heart | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | no use not said here | of no use | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | Peter | forward, however, steadily property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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