The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 37
Not one of them thought it worth while to look for Esben, but he soon came along of himself.
Who acts: one, youngest · What happens: think, look, come along · To what, where: escape
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, youngest), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 worth | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Esben | case |
| 12 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 18 | along | along | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | one of brothers | escape | worth property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | one of brothers not said here | for Esben | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for esben=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come along | past | youngest = young | of youngest = young; along, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of himself=Initial_Location |
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/pg5615/29/37/