The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 125

There was no sign-post to direct them, and the people in the inn had not told them which of the two roads to take.

Who acts: sign post · What happens: be, direct, not tell, take · To what, where: people, two roads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign post), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 post	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 post	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sign	punct
6	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 direct	mark
8	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 post	acl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 direct	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 told	nsubj:pass
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 inn	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 inn	det
16	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 told	advmod
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	ccomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 roads	nsubj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 roads	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 roads	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 roads	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 roads	nummod
25	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 told	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 roads	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	no sign post			there	tree rules
2	direct	to-infinitive	no sign post not said here	people			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the people in the inn	the two roads		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient road=Topic
4	take	to-infinitive					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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