The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 192
As for the old hermit, no trace of him was ever discovered; but the cave is there, and the leaves lie thick in front of it unto this day.
Who acts: cave, leaves · What happens: discover, be, lie · To what, where: trace, front
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 (cave, leaves), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 hermit | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hermit | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hermit | amod |
| 5 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hermit | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 trace | det |
| 8 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trace | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 discovered | aux:pass |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 discovered | advmod |
| 13 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 there | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 there | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | cop |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 discovered | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lie | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lie | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 leaves | det |
| 23 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lie | nsubj |
| 24 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 discovered | conj |
| 25 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lie | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 front | case |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lie | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 front | nmod |
| 30 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 32 day | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lie | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | no trace of hermit | ever | as the old hermit | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | the cave | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | the leaves | front of trace | day | thick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
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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