The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 6

The king was extremely angry at this, and sent out soldiers to catch whoever had set fire to the ricks; but it was all of no use—not a soul could they see.

Who acts: king, soul · What happens: be, send out, catch, set, not see · To what, where: this, soldiers, whoever, fire, use

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, soul), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 angry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sent	cc
10	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 angry	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 sent	compound:prt
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sent	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 catch	mark
14	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sent	advcl
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 catch	obj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 set	aux
17	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 whoever	acl:relcl
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ricks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ricks	det
21	ricks	rick	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 set	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 all	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 all	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 all	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 all	cop
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 angry	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 use	case
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 use	det
29	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 all	nmod
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 see	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 soul	det
33	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 see	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 see	aux
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 use	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		this	angry, extremely property	tree rules
2	send out	participle	the king not said here	soldiers			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme
3	catch	to-infinitive	the king not said here	whoever			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whoever=Theme
4	set	past · perfect		fire		to the ricks	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
5	not see	could	a soul	no use not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer use=Stimulus

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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