The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 55
And none knew whither they had gone, or how to seek them.
Who acts: none, maidens · What happens: know, go, seek · To what, where: maidens · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, maidens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 knew | cc |
| 2 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 gone | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seek | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 seek | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 seek | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seek | mark |
| 12 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seek | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | maidens = maiden | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | none not said here | maidens = maiden | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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