The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 102
After this the strange adventures the young man passed through were endless.
Who acts: strange adventures · What happens: pass through, be · To what, where: young man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange adventures), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 adventures | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 adventures | det |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 adventures | amod |
| 5 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 endless | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adventures | appos |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 passed | compound:prt |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 endless | cop |
| 12 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 endless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass through | participle | the young man not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the strange adventures | endless property | 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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