The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 21
They saw at last that there was nothing for it but to carry to the king the sad tidings of his beloved daughter’s disappearance.
Who acts: playmates, beloved daughter · What happens: see, be, carry, disappear · To what, where: nothing, sad tidings, king
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (playmates, beloved daughter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nothing | amod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nothing | cop |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 saw | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 carry | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tidings | det |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tidings | amod |
| 19 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carry | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 disappearance | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 daughter | amod |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 25 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tidings | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | playmates = playmate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | nothing | for pool | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | playmates = playmate not said here | the sad tidings of king's beloved daughter's disappearance | the king | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tiding=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 4 | disappear | king's beloved daughter | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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