The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 80
They did so, and were told that there was no other way.
Who acts: men, other way · What happens: do, tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men, other way), 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | ccomp |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 way | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | men = man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | men = man not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no other way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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