The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 125

But she never came back any more, but instead, death came soon, and set him free.

Who acts: vapour, death · What happens: not come back, come, set · To what, where: death

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 (vapour, death), 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	_	4 came	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	instead	instead	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 instead	punct
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 came	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
17	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obj
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 set	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not come back	past	vapour			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	death		instead, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set	infinitive	death not said here	death	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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