The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 58
All this time his father and brothers had had no news of him, and were very anxious.
Who acts: father · What happens: have, be · To what, where: news
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brothers | cc |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 father | conj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | aux |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 news | det |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 news | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 anxious | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 anxious | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 anxious | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 anxious | advmod |
| 18 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 had | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | king's father and brothers | no news of king | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | king's father and brothers not said here | anxious property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/58/