The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 97
And how did you cross that pitiless desert where never yet foot of man had trod?”
Who acts: you · What happens: cross, tread · To what, where: pitiless desert
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cross | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 cross | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 trod | mark |
| 7 | pitiless | pitiless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 desert | amod |
| 8 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trod | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 trod | advmod |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 foot | advmod |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 foot | advmod |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trod | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 foot | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trod | aux |
| 16 | trod | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cross | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · do-support | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tread | past · perfect · passive | pitiless desert | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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