The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 89
Her father could hardly bear her out of his sight, and he almost died of grief when, one day, she disappeared, and though the whole kingdom was searched through and through, she could not be found in any corner of it.
Who acts: father, princess · What happens: bear, die, disappear, search, not find, sight · To what, where: princess, sight, whole kingdom, corner
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 (father, princess), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 bear | advmod |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sight | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 died | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 died | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 died | nsubj |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 died | advmod |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 grief | case |
| 17 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 died | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 died | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 day | nummod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bear | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 disappeared | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 disappeared | nsubj |
| 24 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 found | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 found | cc |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 32 searched | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kingdom | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kingdom | amod |
| 30 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 searched | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 searched | aux:pass |
| 32 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 found | advcl |
| 33 | through | through | ADV | _ | 32 searched | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 through | cc |
| 35 | through | through | ADV | _ | 33 through | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 searched | punct |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 found | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 found | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 found | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 found | aux:pass |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 disappeared | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 corner | case |
| 43 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 corner | det |
| 44 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 found | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 corner | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could | princess's father | princess | father's sight | day | hardly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |
| 2 | die | past | father | of grief; almost property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | princess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | search | past · passive | the whole kingdom | through property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location | ||||
| 5 | not find | could · passive | princess | any corner of corner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sight | father | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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