More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 5
Then he went into the house, and looked for the ball, but could not find it.
Who acts: he · What happens: go, look, not find · To what, where: house, ball
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 ball | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ball | det |
| 12 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | the house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | past | he not said here | for the ball | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ball=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | he not said here | ball | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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