The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 214
(for no dogs ever passed that way by any chance), and he went out to see if he could be of any use.
Who acts: dog · What happens: pass, go out, see, be · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 dogs | case |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 dogs | det |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obl |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 passed | advmod |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 chance | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 chance | det |
| 11 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | xcomp |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 use | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 use | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 use | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 use | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 use | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 use | det |
| 26 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | that way | ever | for no dogs; by any chance | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent way=Theme by chance=Destination | |||
| 2 | go out | past | dog | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | dog not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | could | dog | of any use | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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