The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 104
So he threw them in, and as they were never seen again, no one ever knew into which fair they had fallen.
Who acts: river, one, horses · What happens: throw, not see, know, fall · To what, where: horses, fair
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, one, horses), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 seen | advmod |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 threw | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 seen | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 knew | advmod |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 fair | case |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 fair | det |
| 21 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fallen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fallen | aux |
| 24 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 fair | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | river | horses = horse | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | horses = horse | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | past | no one | which fair | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | horses = horse | which fair not said here | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient fair=Result |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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