The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 92
He looked for a stream but none was to be seen, and his tongue grew more parched every moment.
Who acts: hermit, tongue · What happens: look, see, grow, parch · To what, where: none
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, tongue), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 stream | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stream | det |
| 5 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 looked | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 parched | advmod |
| 18 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 grew | advcl |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 parched | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | hermit | for a stream | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stream=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | hermit's tongue | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | parch | participle | hermit's tongue not said here | moment | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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