The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 188

But the footprints never turned out to be those of the Nunda.

Who acts: footprints · What happens: not turn out, be · To what, where: those

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footprints), 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	_	5 turned	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 footprints	det
3	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 turned	advmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 turned	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	9 those	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 those	cop
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 turned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Nunda	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Nunda	det
12	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 those	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not turn out	past	the footprints						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		those				of the Nunda	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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