The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 49
He went about all day in despair, and thought and thought, but he could not remember what they sounded like.
Who acts: troll, words · What happens: go about, think, not remember, sound like · To what, where: despair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, words), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 despair | case |
| 7 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remember | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 remember | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remember | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 remember | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 remember | advmod |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sounded | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sounded | nsubj |
| 21 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 remember | ccomp |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 sounded | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | past | troll | despair | day | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not remember | could | troll | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sound like | past | words = word | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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