The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 59
However, nothing daunted, he struggled on on foot, and at last reached a seaport.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: daunt, struggle on, reach · To what, where: foot, seaport, last
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 struggled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 struggled | nsubj |
| 4 | daunted | daunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 struggled | nsubj |
| 7 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 struggled | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reached | obl |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struggled | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 seaport | det |
| 17 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | struggle on | past | nothing | foot | however property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | reach | past | nothing not said here | a seaport | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent seaport=Theme at last=Asset |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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