The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 87

The sad news drove Ratibor distracted, and as the days went on, and nothing could be heard of the princess, he forsook his castle and the society of men, and spent his days in the wild forests, roaming about and crying her name aloud to the trees and rocks.

Who acts: sad news, Ratibor, princess · What happens: drive, distract, go on, hear, forsake, spend · To what, where: nothing, castle, wild forests, name, trees

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 (sad news, Ratibor, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 news	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 news	amod
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Ratibor	Ratibor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 distracted	nsubj
6	distracted	distract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 days	det
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	obl
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	parataxis
13	on	on	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 heard	nsubj:pass
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	aux:pass
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 went	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 princess	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forsook	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 forsook	nsubj
25	forsook	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 castle	nmod:poss
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 forsook	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 society	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 society	det
30	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 castle	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 men	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 society	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spent	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spent	cc
35	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 forsook	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 days	nmod:poss
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spent	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 forests	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 forests	det
40	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 forests	compound
41	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 spent	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 roaming	punct
43	roaming	roam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 spent	advcl
44	about	about	ADV	_	43 roaming	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 crying	cc
46	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 roaming	conj
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 name	nmod:poss
48	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 crying	obj
49	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	46 crying	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 trees	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 trees	det
52	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 crying	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 rocks	cc
54	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 trees	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the sad news						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
2	distract	past	Ratibor						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	go on	past					day		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	could · passive		nothing				of the princess	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	forsake	past	Ratibor	Ratibor's castle and the society of men					tree rules
6	spend	past	Ratibor not said here			the wild forests	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	roam	gerund	Ratibor not said here					about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	cry speech: express	gerund	Ratibor not said here	princess's name	the trees and rocks			aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Topic to tree=Recipient
9	name		princess						nom name «communication transitive»: 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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