The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 94
But in this they met with no success; there was no dog that could overtake him, and no marksman that could hit him.
Who acts: this, dog, marksman · What happens: meet, be, overtake, hit · To what, where: marksman, Troll
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, dog, marksman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 met | mark |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 met | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 was | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 success | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 success | det |
| 8 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 overtake | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 overtake | aux |
| 16 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dog | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 overtake | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 marksman | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 marksman | cc |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 marksman | det |
| 21 | marksman | marksman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hit | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hit | aux |
| 24 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 marksman | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hit | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | this | with no success | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with success=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no dog | no marksman | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | overtake | could | no dog | Troll | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hit | could | no marksman | Troll | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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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