The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 102
But somehow he never could think of anything that would do, and at last, as the brothers had foreseen, he sent for Pinkel.
Who acts: king, brothers · What happens: not think, do, have, send
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, brothers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 think | cc |
| 2 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 6 think | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 think | advmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 anything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 last | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 think | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brothers | det |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 last | parataxis |
| 21 | foreseen | foreseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 had | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sent | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sent | nsubj |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Pinkel | case |
| 26 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | could | king | of anything; somehow property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | would | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | the brothers | foreseen property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | send | past | king | for Pinkel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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