The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 61
So the King could find out nothing, and was obliged to send her away.
Who acts: King · What happens: find out, oblige, send away · To what, where: nothing, sunbeam
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 find | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obliged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 obliged | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 obliged | aux:pass |
| 11 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 send | mark |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 obliged | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 send | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 send | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | could | the King | nothing | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | ||||||
| 3 | send away | to-infinitive | sunbeam | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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