The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 62

There was nothing for it but to go to the shops to buy fresh, and to begin all over again!

Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, go, buy, begin · To what, where: shops

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 (nothing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nothing	nmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shops	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shops	det
11	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 buy	mark
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 buy	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begin	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 begin	mark
18	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 over	advmod
20	over	over	ADV	_	18 begin	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 begin	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	nothing not said here	the shops			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location
3	buy	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			fresh property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	begin	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		again	over property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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