The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 8

‘Whither have they gone, and my host also?’ cried Manawyddan, and they searched the hall, and there was no man, and the castle, and there was none, and in the dwellings that were left was nothing save wild beasts.

Who acts: lands, host, none, dwellings · What happens: go, cry, search, be, leave · To what, where: castle, hall, man, dwellings, save wild beasts

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lands, host, none, dwellings), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
2	Whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gone	advmod
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 host	nmod:poss
9	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	nsubj
10	also	also	ADV	_	9 host	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 host	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 host	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	parataxis
14	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 searched	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 searched	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 searched	nsubj
18	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hall	det
20	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 searched	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	cop
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 castle	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 castle	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 was	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
35	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	34 was	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 beasts	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 beasts	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 dwellings	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dwellings	det
40	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 beasts	nsubj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 left	nsubj:pass
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 left	aux:pass
43	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 dwellings	acl:relcl
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 beasts	cop
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	48 beasts	nsubj
46	save	save	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 beasts	amod
47	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 beasts	amod
48	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	lands = land	the castle		whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	my host				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	search	past	lands = land	the hall			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hall=Location
4	is a	past	lands = land not said here	no man			tree rules
5	be	past	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	past · passive		the dwellings			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	is a	past	the dwellings	save wild beasts			tree rules

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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