Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 140

He searched and searched, he enquired and enquired, never a thing came of it; not even a trace of the youth could be found.

Who acts: journeyman, thing · What happens: search, enquire, not come, find · To what, where: trace

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journeyman, thing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 searched	cc
4	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 enquired	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 enquired	nsubj
7	enquired	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 enquired	cc
9	enquired	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 enquired	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 came	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 trace	advmod
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 trace	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 trace	det
21	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 youth	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 youth	det
24	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trace	nmod
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 found	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 found	aux:pass
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 searched	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	search	past	journeyman			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	search	past	journeyman not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	enquire speech: other	past	journeyman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	enquire speech: other	past	journeyman not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not come	past	a thing		of smithy	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
6	find	could · passive		a trace of the youth		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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