The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 26
But the phantom did but fly the faster, and the Prince spent the whole day in this vain pursuit.
Who acts: phantom, Prince · What happens: do, fly, spend · To what, where: vain pursuit
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (phantom, 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 | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 phantom | det |
| 3 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 fly | cc |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 faster | det |
| 8 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fly | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spent | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 spent | nsubj |
| 13 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spent | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pursuit | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 pursuit | det |
| 19 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pursuit | amod |
| 20 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the phantom | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fly | infinitive | the phantom not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spend | past | the Prince | this vain pursuit | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/36/26/