The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 105

But it was not very easy, and for months, and months, and months, he wandered about underground, and, at the end, seemed no nearer to fulfilling his purpose than he was at the beginning.

Who acts: Paul, end · What happens: not be, wander, seem, fulfil, be, purpose · To what, where: purpose

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, end), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 easy	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 easy	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 months	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 months	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 easy	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 months	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 months	cc
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 easy	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wandered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wandered	cc
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wandered	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 months	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wandered	nsubj
19	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	conj
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 underground	advmod
21	underground	underground	ADV	_	19 wandered	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 end	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seemed	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 end	punct
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wandered	parataxis
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 nearer	det
31	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 seemed	xcomp
32	to	to	SCONJ	_	33 fulfilling	mark
33	fulfilling	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 nearer	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 purpose	nmod:poss
35	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fulfilling	obj
36	than	than	ADP	_	41 beginning	case
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 beginning	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 beginning	cop
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 beginning	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 beginning	det
41	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fulfilling	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past			month	easy property	tree rules
2	wander	past	Paul		month	underground property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	the end			near property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	fulfil	gerund	the end not said here	Paul's purpose			tree rules
5	is	past	Paul		than the beginning		tree rules
6	purpose		Paul				nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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