The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 56

He went far and wide to inquire for that country from whence she had said that she came, but there was no one who could tell him where it lay, so he was forced to have patience once more.

Who acts: Prince, daughter, one, sermon · What happens: go, inquire, say, come, be, tell · To what, where: Prince, patience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, daughter, one, sermon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wide	cc
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 inquire	mark
7	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inquire	obl
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
12	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	15 said	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 inquire	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	advcl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 tell	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 one	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 lay	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 forced	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 forced	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 forced	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 forced	aux:pass
36	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 have	mark
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 forced	xcomp
39	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 have	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Prince				far, wide property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	Prince not said here				for that country	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	daughter				whence property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	daughter					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	no one			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	could	no one		Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	lie	past	sermon					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	force	past · passive		Prince				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
9	have	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	patience				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient

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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