The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 53
But in vain he examined all the hedges and all the thickets; in vain he questioned everyone he met along the road.
Who acts: bird · What happens: examine, question, meet · To what, where: hedges, vain, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 examined | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 vain | case |
| 3 | vain | vain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 examined | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 examined | nsubj |
| 5 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hedges | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hedges | det |
| 8 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 examined | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thickets | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 thickets | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thickets | det |
| 12 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hedges | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 questioned | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vain | case |
| 15 | vain | vain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 questioned | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 questioned | nsubj |
| 17 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 examined | conj |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 questioned | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | nsubj |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 questioned | ccomp |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 road | det |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | bird | all hedges and all thickets | vain | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Theme | |||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | bird | everyone | vain | tree rules | |||
| 3 | meet | past | bird | along the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/53/