The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 128
They had to go in this way, day after day, and hitherto they had always succeeded in finding one or other reckless fellow.
Who acts: officers · What happens: have, go, succeed, find · To what, where: way, officers, one
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 (officers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 succeeded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 succeeded | cc |
| 14 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 18 succeeded | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 succeeded | aux |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 succeeded | advmod |
| 18 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 finding | mark |
| 20 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 succeeded | advcl |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 finding | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 fellow | cc |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 24 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | officers = officer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | officers = officer not said here | this way | day | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | |||
| 3 | succeed | past · perfect · passive | officers = officer | always, hitherto property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | one or other reckless fellow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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