The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 78

The youngest brother, on the other hand, went on his weary way for many days, and nowhere did he come across any linen that would have done.

Who acts: youngest brother, linen · What happens: go, come, do · To what, where: weary way, linen

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest brother, linen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hand	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brother	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 way	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
13	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
20	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 come	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	conj
24	across	across	ADP	_	26 linen	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 linen	det
26	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 done	obj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 done	aux
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 linen	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youngest brother and the other hand		linen's weary way	day		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	come	past · do-support	linen		any linen		nowhere property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across linen=Initial_Location
3	do	would · perfect		any linen				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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