The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 10
And whether he was drowned or where he went no man knows to this day.
Who acts: boar, man · What happens: drown, go, know · To what, where: boar
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boar, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drowned | cc |
| 2 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 drowned | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drowned | aux:pass |
| 5 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drowned | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past · passive | boar | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | boar | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | no man | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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