The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 58
The four friends followed the track of the tree and found that it ended in a deep hole.
Who acts: four friends, friend · What happens: follow, find, end · To what, where: track, deep hole · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (four friends, friend), 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 | 3 friends | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 friends | nummod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 track | det |
| 6 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 track | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 ended | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ended | nsubj |
| 14 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hole | amod |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ended | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the four friends | the track of the tree | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the four friends not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | end | past | friend | a deep hole | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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