The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 83
And long after everyone else had given up hope Ivan and Marie would wander through the woods crying ‘Snowflake, my dove, come back, come back!’
Who acts: Ivan, woods · What happens: give up, hope, wander, cry, come back · To what, where: everyone, woods, Snowflake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, woods), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 given | cc |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 given | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 given | mark |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 everyone | advmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hope | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 given | compound:prt |
| 9 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wander | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Marie | cc |
| 12 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ivan | conj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wander | aux |
| 14 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hope | ccomp |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 woods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woods | det |
| 17 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wander | obl |
| 18 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 woods | acl |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Snowflake | punct |
| 20 | Snowflake | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crying | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dove | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dove | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Snowflake | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wander | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wander | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 hope | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past · perfect · passive | everyone | long property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | hope | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | wander | would | Ivan and Marie | the woods | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the woods not said here | Snowflake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowflake=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come back | infinitive | Ivan and Marie not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come back | infinitive | Ivan and Marie not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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