The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 203
But he never came; no doubt he had flown away far into the great green wood.
Who acts: breeze · What happens: not come, fly away · To what, where: doubt, great green wood
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breeze), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 flown | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 doubt | det |
| 7 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flown | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flown | aux |
| 10 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 flown | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | amod |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | amod |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flown | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past | breeze | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly away | past · perfect · passive | no doubt | the great green wood | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into wood=Trajectory |
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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