The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 60

But the answer everywhere was, ‘You must go farther, we have not seen them.’

Who acts: You · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: answer

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (You), 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	_	16 seen	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	nsubj:pass
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 go	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answer	acl
11	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 go	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 seen	advmod
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must · past	You	the answer not said here				everywhere, far, go property	tree rules
2	not see	present · perfect · passive		the answer					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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