The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 105

Many had gone to the island to try and get possession of her treasures, but no one had ever come back.

Who acts: Many, one, fairy · What happens: go, try, get, come back, possess, treasure · To what, where: island, possession, treasures

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, one, fairy), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 try	mark
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gone	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	conj
11	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 treasures	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 treasures	nmod:poss
14	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 possession	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gone	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Many		the island		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location
2	try	to-infinitive	Many not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	infinitive	Many not said here	possession of fairy's treasures			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus
4	come back	past	no one			ever	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	possess			fairy's treasures			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient
6	treasure		fairy				nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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