The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 115

When they came in the morning to let the sentinel out, there was no one there, and it was impossible to discover which way he had gone if he had run away.

Who acts: king, the, tuft · What happens: come, let, sentinel out, be, discover, go · To what, where: the, way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, the, tuft), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 was	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 let	mark
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 let	obj
10	sentinel	sentinel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 sentinel	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 impossible	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 there	obl:unmarked
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 was	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 impossible	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 impossible	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 impossible	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 impossible	cop
22	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 discover	mark
24	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 impossible	csubj
25	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 discover	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gone	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	aux
29	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 way	acl:relcl
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 run	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 run	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 run	aux
33	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 gone	advcl
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 run	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	king		morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	to-infinitive	king not said here	the			tree rules
3	sentinel out	infinitive	the not said here				tree rules
4	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
5	discover	to-infinitive		which way			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
6	go	past · perfect	tuft	which way not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
7	run away a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	tuft			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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