The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 3

He sought a way out, but could find none.

Who acts: king · What happens: seek out, find · To what, where: way, none

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 sought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sought	conj
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 find	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek out	past	king	a way				out property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	find	could	king not said here	none					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic

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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