The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 21

But when he looked at them he found that they were written in a forgotten language, and he could not understand a single word, though he amused himself with trying.

Who acts: prince · What happens: look, find, write, forget, not understand, amuse · To what, where: rooms, forgotten language, single word, prince

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 written	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 written	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 written	aux:pass
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 language	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 language	det
15	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 language	amod
16	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 written	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 understand	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 understand	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 understand	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 understand	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 understand	advmod
22	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 found	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 word	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 word	amod
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 understand	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 amused	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 amused	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 amused	nsubj
29	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 understand	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 amused	obj
31	with	with	SCONJ	_	32 trying	mark
32	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 amused	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	prince			at rooms = room	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	find	past	prince				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	write	past · passive		rooms = room	a forgotten language		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in language=Destination
4	forget	participle					tree rules
5	not understand	could	prince	a single word			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
6	amuse	past	prince	prince			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
7	try	gerund	prince not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 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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