The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 94
He hunted for his cocoanuts, but none were there.
Who acts: sun, none · What happens: hunt, be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, none), 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 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 cocoanuts | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cocoanuts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cocoanuts | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 there | cc |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 there | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hunted | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | sun | for sun's cocoanuts | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for cocoanut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | none | there property | tree rules |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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