The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 42

Then they went on their way, but, finding no traces of the little hare, they returned sadly to their village, saying, ‘To think we should have allowed ourselves to be swept away by a wretched creature like that!’

Who acts: hyaenas, wretched creature · What happens: go, find, return, say, think, allow · To what, where: way, traces, we, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hyaenas, wretched creature), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finding	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 finding	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finding	punct
10	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 traces	det
12	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 finding	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 hare	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hare	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hare	amod
16	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 traces	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returned	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 returned	nsubj
19	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	19 returned	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 village	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 village	nmod:poss
23	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 returned	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
28	To	to	PART	_	29 think	mark
29	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 saying	ccomp
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 allowed	nsubj:pass
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 allowed	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 allowed	aux
33	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 think	ccomp
34	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 allowed	iobj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 swept	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 swept	aux:pass
37	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 allowed	advcl
38	away	away	ADV	_	37 swept	advmod
39	by	by	ADP	_	42 creature	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 creature	det
41	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 creature	amod
42	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swept	obl
43	like	like	ADP	_	44 that	case
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 swept	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	hyaenas = hyaena			hyaenas's way	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	find	gerund	hyaenas = hyaena not said here	no traces of the little hare					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic
3	return	past	hyaenas = hyaena					to hyaenas's village result; sadly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result
4	say speech: assert	gerund	hyaenas = hyaena not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive							vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	allow	should · perfect · passive		we	ourselves				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal ourselves=Theme
7	sweep away	to-infinitive · passive	a wretched creature					like that; away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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