The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 4
Night came on, and there seemed to be nothing for it but to seek out the best resting-place he could find.
Who acts: Night, tailor · What happens: come on, seem, be, seek out, find · To what, where: nothing, best resting place
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 (Night, 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seemed | cc |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 seemed | advmod |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 nothing | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 nothing | cop |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 nothing | nmod |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 seek | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seek | mark |
| 15 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seemed | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 seek | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 place | amod |
| 19 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 resting | punct |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seek | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | Night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | nothing | for way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek out | to-infinitive | the best resting place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find | could | tailor | the best resting place not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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