The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 28
The tailor could not think what to do or which way to turn to get away from this awful wilderness, and to find his way back amongst human beings once more.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: not think, do, turn, get away, find back · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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 | 2 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 way | cc |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 turn | mark |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 way | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 turn | xcomp |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 wilderness | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 wilderness | det |
| 19 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wilderness | amod |
| 20 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 find | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 find | advmod |
| 28 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 30 beings | case |
| 29 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 beings | amod |
| 30 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 find | obl |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 find | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | could | the tailor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | get away | to-infinitive | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find back | to-infinitive | the tailor not said here | tailor's way | amongst human beings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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