The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 13

The hunters had hunted the wood for so many years that no wild animal was any more to be found in it.

Who acts: hunters · What happens: hunt, find · To what, where: wood, wild animal

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters), 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 hunters	det
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunted	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunted	aux
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunted	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunted	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 found	obj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 animal	det
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animal	amod
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	aux:pass
16	any	any	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 found	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	20 found	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 found	aux:pass
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 years	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · perfect	the hunters	the wood			year		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
2	find	past · passive	the hunters not said here	no wild animal		wood			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute

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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