The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 26

He had gone out once to seek a place, he said, but never would he do such a thing again.

Who acts: state · What happens: go out, seek, say, not do · To what, where: place, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (state), 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	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 gone	compound:prt
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 gone	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 seek	mark
7	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gone	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seek	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 do	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 do	advmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 thing	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	18 do	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past · perfect	state			once property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seek	to-infinitive	state not said here	a place			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	state				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not do	would	state	such thing	again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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