The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 118
“It is enchanted, and no one that has tried to enter it has ever come back.”
Who acts: one · What happens: enchant, try, enter, come back · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 enchanted | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 4 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 tried | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tried | aux |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 enter | mark |
| 13 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 enter | obj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enchanted | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enchanted | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant in a quote | present · passive | castle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | present · perfect | no one | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | enter not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | no one not said here | castle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come back in a quote | present | no one | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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