The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 5
What became of the two elder I have never been able to discover, but the youngest went both far and wide.
Who acts: I, youngest · What happens: become, not be, discover, go · To what, where: two elder
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youngest), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 elder | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elder | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 elder | nummod |
| 6 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elder | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 discover | mark |
| 13 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youngest | det |
| 17 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | parataxis |
| 19 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 far | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 went | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wide | cc |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 went | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | of the two elder | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not is | present · perfect | I | the two elder not said here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | discover | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the youngest | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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