The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 47
At last they found themselves back at the same spot they had started from, and in despair they returned once more with empty hands to the Magician.
Who acts: pursuers · What happens: find back, start, return · To what, where: pursuers, last, same spot, despair
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spot | amod |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 started | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 started | aux |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 spot | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 started | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 returned | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 despair | case |
| 18 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 returned | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 returned | nsubj |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 returned | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hands | amod |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 returned | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Magician | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Magician | det |
| 28 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 returned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find back | past | pursuers = pursuer | pursuers = pursuer | last | at the same spot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 2 | start | past · perfect | pursuers = pursuer | the same spot not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | return | past | pursuers = pursuer | despair | with empty hands; to the Magician result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to magician=Result |
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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