The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 99

He did not know where it lay, but he followed the track of the other carts, and in that way came to it all right.

Who acts: Hans, difficulty · What happens: not know, lie, follow, come · To what, where: track, right, difficulty, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, difficulty), 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	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 lay	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 followed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 followed	nsubj
11	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 track	det
13	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 carts	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 carts	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 carts	amod
17	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 track	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 right	det
27	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Hans				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lie	past	difficulty				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	follow	past	Hans	the track of the other carts			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme
4	come	past		all right	difficulty	that way	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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