The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 8
But he could not forget the terrible things he had seen, and hoped eagerly for a clue to the mystery.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not forget, see, hope · To what, where: terrible things
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 forget | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 forget | advmod |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 things | det |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forget | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hoped | cc |
| 14 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | parataxis |
| 15 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 14 hoped | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 clue | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 clue | det |
| 18 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hoped | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 mystery | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mystery | det |
| 21 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clue | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | could | Prince | the terrible things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Prince | the terrible things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hope | past | for a clue to the mystery; eagerly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for clue=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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