English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 51

The master's son he tried every way to find out where the lady was gone, but go where he might, and ask whom he might, he never heard anything about her.

Who acts: son, lady · What happens: try, find out, be, go, ask, not hear · To what, where: way, anything

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, lady), 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 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 master	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 find	compound:prt
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 gone	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 find	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	conj
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 might	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 might	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ask	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ask	cc
25	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 ask	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 might	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 whom	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heard	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heard	nsubj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 heard	advmod
32	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	conj
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 heard	obj
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 anything	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	the master's son	every way		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2	find out	to-infinitive	the master's son not said here	every way not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the lady		gone property	tree rules
4	go	infinitive	the master's son not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the master's son not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
6	not hear	past	son	anything	about lady	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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