More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 6

Next day when the young lord could not find where was the sign of the "Basin of Water," or of the "Broken Ladle," he begged his mother to have another grand ball, so that he might meet the beautiful maid once more.

Who acts: young lord, lord · What happens: not find, be, beg, have, meet · To what, where: sign, mother, grand ball, beautiful maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lord, lord), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 find	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lord	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lord	amod
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 sign	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sign	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sign	det
13	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Basin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Basin	det
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Basin	punct
17	Basin	Basin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sign	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Water	case
19	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Basin	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Basin	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Basin	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 Ladle	cc
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 Ladle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Ladle	det
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Ladle	punct
26	Broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Ladle	amod
27	Ladle	Ladle	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Basin	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 begged	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 begged	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 begged	nsubj
31	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sign	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 begged	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 have	mark
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 begged	ccomp
36	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	38 ball	det
37	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ball	amod
38	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 meet	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	44 meet	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 so	fixed
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 meet	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 meet	aux
44	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 have	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 maid	det
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 maid	amod
47	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 meet	obj
48	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	49 more	advmod
49	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 meet	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not find	could	the young lord			day		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the sign			of the Basin of Water or the Broken Ladle	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	lord		lord's mother			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive		another grand ball				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
5	meet	might	lord	the beautiful maid				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Co-Agent

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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