The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 100

Now, as he was longing to see the princesses, he was very anxious to come to a river or a fountain, but, though he rode for hours, a river or fountain was nowhere to be seen.

Who acts: adventurer · What happens: long, see, be, come, ride · To what, where: princesses, river

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventurer), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 anxious	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 longing	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 longing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 longing	aux
6	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 anxious	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 longing	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princesses	det
10	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 longing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 anxious	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 anxious	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 anxious	advmod
15	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 come	mark
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 anxious	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 river	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 fountain	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fountain	det
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 river	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rode	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 rode	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rode	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 rode	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rode	nsubj
29	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 anxious	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 hours	case
31	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rode	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 river	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 river	det
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seen	nsubj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 fountain	cc
36	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 river	conj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 seen	aux:pass
38	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 seen	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	41 seen	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 seen	aux:pass
41	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 rode	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	long	past · progressive	adventurer					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	adventurer not said here	the princesses				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	is	past	adventurer			now	anxious property	tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	adventurer not said here		a river or a fountain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
5	ride	past	adventurer			hour		tree rules
6	see	past · passive		a river or fountain			nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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