The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 47
For many hours he rode up and down the mountain, but saw nothing, and at last, tired of waiting, he went back to the mill.
Who acts: hare · What happens: ride up, see, wait, go back · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hours | amod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 rode | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mountain | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tired | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tired | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 last | punct |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rode | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 waiting | mark |
| 22 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 tired | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 mill | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mill | det |
| 29 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | hare | hour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | hare not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | hare not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back | past | hare | to the mill result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mill=Result |
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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