The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 51

He had formed no plan, and there was no reason that he should choose one path more than another.

Who acts: bird, reason · What happens: form, be, choose · To what, where: plan, one path

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, reason), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 formed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 formed	aux
3	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 formed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 formed	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 reason	det
11	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 choose	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 choose	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 choose	aux
15	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 reason	acl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 path	nummod
17	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 choose	obj
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 path	amod
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 more	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	form	past · perfect	bird	no plan		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme
2	be	past	no reason		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	choose	should	bird	one path		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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