The Yellow Fairy Book, How to Tell a True Princess, sentence 2
So he travelled through the whole world to find one, but there was always something against each.
Who acts: he, something · What happens: travel, find, be · To what, where: whole world, one
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How to Tell a True Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, something), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 world | amod |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 travelled | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 was | advmod |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 something | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | he | the whole world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | he not said here | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | past | something | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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