The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 9
Then the messengers came home again, not having been able to find a queen.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: come, have, not be, find · To what, where: queen
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 (messengers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messengers | det |
| 3 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the messengers | then; again | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is | participle | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | a queen | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic |
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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