The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 22
The unfortunate girl is pining away in some unknown land, where perhaps no foot of man has ever trod, and I shall see her no more.
Who acts: unfortunate girl, I · What happens: pine away, tread, see · To what, where: unknown land, foot, girl
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unfortunate girl, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pining | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pining | aux |
| 5 | pining | pine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 pining | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 land | det |
| 9 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 land | amod |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pining | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trod | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 trod | advmod |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 foot | advmod |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 foot | det |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trod | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 foot | nmod |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 trod | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 trod | advmod |
| 20 | trod | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 land | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pining | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 28 more | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pining | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pine away | present · progressive | the unfortunate girl | some unknown land | away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | tread | present · perfect · passive | no foot of man | ever | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | shall | I | girl | tree rules |
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/pg640/16/22/