The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 94

Three years he spent travelling through forests and wildernesses, but could find no one able to tell him anything of the Princess.

Who acts: loss, one · What happens: spend, travel, find, tell · To what, where: forests, one, anything, loss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loss, one), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spent	nsubj
4	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spent	advcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 forests	case
7	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 travelling	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wildernesses	cc
9	wildernesses	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forests	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 find	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spent	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 find	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 able	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 tell	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Princess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 anything	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	loss				year		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	travel	gerund	loss not said here			forests and wildernesses			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
3	find	could	loss not said here	no one				able property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	no one not said here	anything	loss				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=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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