The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 45
But when at last he got there he found neither pavilions nor nymphs, and though he went back many nights after he never saw them again.
Who acts: sun · What happens: get, find, go back, not see · To what, where: last, neither pavilions, pavilions
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 got | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | neither | neither | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pavilions | amod |
| 11 | pavilions | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 nymphs | cc |
| 13 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pavilions | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nights | amod |
| 21 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 25 saw | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 saw | advmod |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 saw | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | sun | last; there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | sun | neither pavilions nor nymphs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pavilion=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | sun | night | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not see | past | sun | pavilions = pavilion | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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