The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 24

He had roamed round the world for a whole year, and his horse had died of exhaustion, while he himself had suffered much from want and misery, but still he had come on no trace of her he was in search of.

Who acts: Prince, horse · What happens: roam, die, suffer, come, be · To what, where: world, horse, want, trace

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, horse), 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 roamed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 roamed	aux
3	roamed	roam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roamed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roamed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 died	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horse	nmod:poss
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 died	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 died	aux
16	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 roamed	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 exhaustion	case
18	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 died	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 suffered	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 suffered	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 suffered	nsubj:pass
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 he	nmod:unmarked
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 suffered	aux
24	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 died	advcl
25	much	much	ADV	_	24 suffered	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 want	case
27	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suffered	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 misery	cc
29	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 want	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 come	cc
32	still	still	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 roamed	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 trace	case
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 trace	det
38	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	44 search	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 search	nmod:poss
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 search	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 search	cop
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 search	case
44	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 trace	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	44 search	case
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	past · perfect	Prince		the world	year		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round world=Trajectory
2	die	past · perfect	Prince's horse				of exhaustion	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of exhaustion=Causer
3	suffer	past · perfect · passive		horse	want and misery			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	come	past · perfect	horse		no trace	still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trace=Location
5	is	past	horse				of fairy's search	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.

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