The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 15
But months passed, and years passed, and though he travelled over hundreds of miles, he never saw any traces of it.
Who acts: months, years, cat · What happens: pass, travel, not see · To what, where: hundreds, traces
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (months, years, cat), 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 | _ | 3 passed | cc |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 passed | cc |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 travelled | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 travelled | nsubj |
| 12 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | advcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 hundreds | case |
| 14 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 travelled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 miles | case |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hundreds | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 travelled | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 saw | advmod |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 traces | det |
| 22 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 traces | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | months | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | years | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | cat | hundreds of miles | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hundred=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not see | past | cat | any traces of ball | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trace=Stimulus |
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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