The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 6
Not long afterwards, however, he went out after some deer which were to be found in a far corner of his forests.
Who acts: king · What happens: go out, find · To what, where: deer, far corner
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 (king), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 went | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 deer | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 deer | det |
| 12 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 found | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 deer | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 corner | det |
| 20 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 corner | amod |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forests | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 forests | nmod:poss |
| 24 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 corner | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | king | after some deer | however, long, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past · passive | king not said here | some deer | a far corner of king's forests | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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