The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 109

Still more disturbed, he rushed to the burying ground, the only place that could tell him what he wished to know.

Who acts: man, only place · What happens: rush, bury, tell, wish, know · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, only place), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 disturbed	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 disturbed	advmod
3	disturbed	disturbed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rushed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rushed	nsubj
6	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 disturbed	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
9	burying	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 ground	amod
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rushed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ground	appos
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 tell	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 place	acl:relcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 wished	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 know	mark
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 disturbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	rush	past	man		to the burying ground result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=Result
2	bury	gerund				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	could	the only place	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wish	past	man			tree rules
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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