The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 46
Their pursuers entered the forest, but searched in vain for Prince Milan and his bride.
Who acts: pursuers · What happens: enter, search · To what, where: forest, vain
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pursuers), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pursuers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 searched | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 searched | cc |
| 8 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entered | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 vain | case |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 searched | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Milan | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Milan | compound |
| 13 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 searched | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bride | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bride | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Milan | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | paths's pursuers | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | search | participle | paths's pursuers not said here | vain | for Prince Milan and Milan's bride | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for milan=Theme |
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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