The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 95

There was nothing to be done but to sail back and tell the king of his loss.

Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, do, sail back, tell · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 done	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nothing	acl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sail	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sail	mark
9	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 sail	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sail	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 loss	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 loss	nmod:poss
17	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 king	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	sail back	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	nothing not said here	the king of king's loss		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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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