The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 8
The old man troubled his head in vain as to how she came there, and sallied forth to seek for his lost net.
Who acts: old man, woman · What happens: trouble, come, sally, seek, lose · To what, where: head, vain
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 troubled | nsubj |
| 4 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 troubled | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 vain | case |
| 8 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 troubled | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vain | advcl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sallied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sallied | cc |
| 17 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 troubled | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 sallied | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sallied | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 net | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 net | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 net | amod |
| 24 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | past | the old man | man's head | vain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | come | past | woman | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sally | past | the old man not said here | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | for man's lost net | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for net=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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