Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 82
They searched and searched a whole week, but they couldn't find it.
Who acts: beans · What happens: search, not find · To what, where: pea
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beans), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 searched | cc |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 week | amod |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 searched | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 searched | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | beans = bean | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | search | past | beans = bean not said here | week | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | beans = bean | pea | 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: «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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