The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 61
All was lonely, empty, sorrowful; and the forsaken gnome resolved that he would have no more dealings with such false creatures as he had found men to be.
Who acts: All, forsaken gnome, gnome · What happens: be, forsake, resolve, have, find · To what, where: more dealings, men
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, forsaken gnome, gnome), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 lonely | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lonely | cop |
| 3 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lonely | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorrowful | punct |
| 7 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lonely | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 resolved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 resolved | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gnome | det |
| 11 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gnome | amod |
| 12 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resolved | nsubj |
| 13 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lonely | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 resolved | ccomp |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 dealings | amod |
| 20 | dealings | dealing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 creatures | case |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creatures | amod |
| 23 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 creatures | amod |
| 24 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dealings | nmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 have | advcl |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 found | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 be | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | All | lonely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | All not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | All not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | forsake | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | resolve | past | the forsaken gnome | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | would | gnome | more dealings | with such false creatures | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dealing=Patient | |||
| 7 | find | past · perfect | gnome | men | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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