The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 111
Off to the moor he went, but never a bird was to be seen that day.
Who acts: youth · What happens: go, see · To what, where: bird
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 moor | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moor | det |
| 4 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 bird | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | youth | to the moor; off property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a bird | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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