The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 16
Then, breaking a sprig of rosemary off a bush hard by, she resolved, cost what it might, to seek him through the world till she found him.
Who acts: girl · What happens: break, resolve, cost, seek, find · To what, where: sprig, damsel, world
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 breaking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaking | punct |
| 3 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 resolved | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sprig | det |
| 5 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaking | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rosemary | case |
| 7 | rosemary | rosemary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprig | nmod |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 bush | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bush | det |
| 10 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 breaking | obl |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 breaking | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hard | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 breaking | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 resolved | nsubj |
| 15 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cost | punct |
| 17 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 resolved | ccomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 cost | obj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 might | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seek | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seek | mark |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cost | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seek | obj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seek | obl |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 found | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seek | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | girl not said here | a sprig of rosemary | then | off a bush; hard property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sprig=Patient off bush=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | resolve | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cost | infinitive | girl not said here | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | |||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | girl not said here | damsel | the world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through world=Location | |||
| 5 | find | past | girl | damsel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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