The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 17

Full of hope he set out in pursuit of her, but by the time he had reached that peak she had left it and was to be seen on another.

Who acts: way · What happens: set out, reach, leave, see, pursue · To what, where: hope, pursuit, peak, another, Covan

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 hope	case
3	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Full	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hope	acl:relcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 pursuit	case
8	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pursuit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reached	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 reached	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 reached	aux
18	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Full	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 left	mark
20	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	nsubj:pass
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 reached	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seen	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux:pass
27	to	to	PART	_	29 seen	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 seen	aux:pass
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 left	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 another	case
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 seen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set out	past	way	hope not said here	pursuit of Covan		tree rules
2	reach	past · perfect	way			time	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past · perfect · passive		peak			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute
4	see	past · passive			another		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
5	pursue			Covan			nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=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 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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