The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 110
But as soon as he was out of sight the idiot sought in vain for traces of the path he had taken.
Who acts: Peronnik, idiot · What happens: be, seek, take · To what, where: sight, vain, path
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, idiot), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 sought | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 sought | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 sight | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sight | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sight | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soon | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 idiot | det |
| 11 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sought | nsubj |
| 12 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 vain | case |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sought | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 traces | case |
| 16 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sought | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 path | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 path | det |
| 19 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 traces | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 path | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Peronnik | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | the idiot | vain | for traces of the path; soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for trace=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | Peronnik | the path not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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 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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