The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 5

Iwanich hurried through the wood as quickly as his legs would carry him, but, nevertheless, hour after hour went by and not a trace of a green field or a human habitation met his eyes.

Who acts: Iwanich, legs, hour, trace · What happens: hurry, carry, go by, meet · To what, where: wood, Iwanich, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Iwanich, legs, hour, trace), 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	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hurried	nsubj
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurried	obl
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 quickly	advmod
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 hurried	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 carry	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carry	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 carry	aux
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 quickly	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carry	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nevertheless	punct
17	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hour	punct
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	nsubj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 hour	case
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hour	nmod
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurried	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	22 went	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 met	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 trace	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 trace	det
27	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 met	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 field	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 field	det
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 field	amod
31	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trace	nmod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 habitation	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 habitation	det
34	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 habitation	amod
35	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 field	conj
36	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 eyes	nmod:poss
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 met	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurry	past	Iwanich		the wood	quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
2	carry	would	Iwanich's legs	Iwanich			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	go by	past	hour after hour			nevertheless property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	a trace of a green field or a human habitation	Iwanich's eyes			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-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.

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