The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 71
This sounded likely, but the messenger who was sent to the Court returned with the news that no one there knew anything about the matter.
Who acts: This, messenger, one · What happens: sound, send, return, know · To what, where: messenger, Court, anything
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, messenger, one), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sounded | nsubj |
| 2 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 2 sounded | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 messenger | det |
| 7 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 messenger | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Court | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Court | det |
| 13 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sounded | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 news | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 news | det |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 knew | mark |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 one | advmod |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | advcl |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 knew | obj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 matter | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 matter | det |
| 26 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 anything | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | This | likely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | the messenger | the Court | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the messenger | with the news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | past | no one | anything | about the matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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