The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 3
But neither did anyone know what had become of all the sentinels.
Who acts: anyone · What happens: know, become · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone), 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 | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 become | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sentinels | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sentinels | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sentinels | det |
| 12 | sentinels | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 become | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · do-support | anyone | neither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | of all sentinels | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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