The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 79

As soon as it was light they searched every corner of the house again, and examined every nail in the wall and every beam; but, luckily, Master Peter was not hanging from any of them.

Who acts: weeping, things, Master Peter · What happens: be, search, examine, not hang · To what, where: corner, nail, wall, any

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weeping, things, Master Peter), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 searched	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 light	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 light	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soon	advcl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 searched	nsubj
8	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 corner	det
10	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 searched	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 corner	nmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	8 searched	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 examined	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 examined	cc
17	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 searched	conj
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 nail	det
19	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 examined	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 wall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 examined	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 beam	cc
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 beam	det
25	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wall	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 hanging	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 hanging	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 but	punct
29	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	35 hanging	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 luckily	punct
31	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Peter	compound
32	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 hanging	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hanging	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 hanging	advmod
35	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 searched	advcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 any	case
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 hanging	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 any	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	weeping				light property	tree rules
2	search	past	things = thing	every corner of the house		again	soon property	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Location
3	examine	past	things = thing not said here	every nail	the wall and every beam			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme
4	not hang	past · progressive	Master Peter		any		luckily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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