The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 49

‘I will try to see if there is any place where I can learn how to find Whiteland,’ he thought, and journeyed forth out into the world.

Who acts: I, place · What happens: try, see, be, learn, find, think · To what, where: Whiteland, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, place), 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	_	4 try	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 is	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	ccomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 learn	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 learn	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 learn	aux
15	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 place	acl:relcl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 find	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 learn	ccomp
19	Whiteland	Whiteland	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 try	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 journeyed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 journeyed	cc
26	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	ccomp
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	26 journeyed	advmod
28	out	out	ADV	_	26 journeyed	advmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 journeyed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	future	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be a condition, not said to happen	present	any place		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	learn	can	I				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	find	to-infinitive		Whiteland			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whiteland=Topic
6	think speech: other	past	place				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	journey out	past			the world	forth, out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination

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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