The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 89

Others have gone on that quest, but none have escaped to tell the tale,’ and he rose to his feet as if to leave them.

Who acts: Others, man · What happens: go, escape, tell, rise, leave · To what, where: quest, none, tale, feet, Others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Others, man), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gone	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 quest	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 quest	det
6	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 escaped	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 escaped	cc
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 escaped	nsubj:pass
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 escaped	aux
11	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gone	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 escaped	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rose	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rose	nsubj
20	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 escaped	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rose	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 leave	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 leave	mark
26	to	to	PART	_	27 leave	mark
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rose	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leave	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	Others		that quest	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on quest=Location
2	escape	present · perfect · passive		none		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the tale		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
4	rise	past	man		man's feet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
5	leave	to-infinitive	man not said here	Others = other		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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