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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 40

When the king came back he could not believe his eyes; but search as he might through the two heaps, he could not find any barley among the wheat, or any wheat amongst the barley.

Who acts: king · What happens: come back, not believe, search, not find · To what, where: eyes, two heaps, barley

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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

markdetnsubjadvcladvmodnsubjauxadvmodnmod:possobjpunctccconjmarknsubjadvclcasedetnummodoblpunctnsubjauxadvmodconjdetobjcasedetoblpunctccdetconjcasedetnmodpunctrootWhenSCONJtheDETkingNOUNcameVERBbackADVhePRONcouldAUXnotPARTbelieveVERBhisPRONeyesNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJsearchVERBasSCONJhePRONmightAUXthroughADPtheDETtwoNUMheapsNOUN,PUNCThePRONcouldAUXnotPARTfindVERBanyDETbarleyNOUNamongADPtheDETwheatNOUN,PUNCTorCCONJanyDETwheatNOUNamongstADPtheDETbarleyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_4 camemark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 kingdet
3kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing4 camensubj
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 believeadvcl
5backbackADV_4 cameadvmod
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 believensubj
7couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin9 believeaux
8notnotPARTPolarity=Neg9 believeadvmod
9believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 eyesnmod:poss
11eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur9 believeobj
12;;PUNCT_14 searchpunct
13butbutCCONJ_14 searchcc
14searchsearchVERBVerbForm=Inf9 believeconj
15asasSCONJ_17 mightmark
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 mightnsubj
17mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin14 searchadvcl
18throughthroughADP_21 heapscase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 heapsdet
20twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card21 heapsnummod
21heapsheapNOUNNumber=Plur14 searchobl
22,,PUNCT_26 findpunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 findnsubj
24couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin26 findaux
25notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 findadvmod
26findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf14 searchconj
27anyanyDETPronType=Ind28 barleydet
28barleybarleyNOUNNumber=Sing26 findobj
29amongamongADP_31 wheatcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 wheatdet
31wheatwheatNOUNNumber=Sing26 findobl
32,,PUNCT_35 wheatpunct
33ororCCONJ_35 wheatcc
34anyanyDETPronType=Ind35 wheatdet
35wheatwheatNOUNNumber=Sing31 wheatconj
36amongstamongstADP_38 barleycase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 barleydet
38barleybarleyNOUNNumber=Sing35 wheatnmod
39..PUNCT_9 believepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1come backpastthe kingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2not believecouldkingking's eyesvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
3searchinfinitiveking not said herethe two heapsvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through heap=Location
4not findcouldkingany barleyamong the wheat or any wheat amongst the barleyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barley=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: «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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