The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 42
He looked again for some place by which he could get out of the magic garden.
Who acts: end · What happens: look, get out · To what, where: magic garden
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 get | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 garden | amod |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | end | again | for some place | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | |||
| 2 | get out | could | end | the magic garden | by some place | 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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