The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 66
Search was made all through the town, and there was not a hole or corner which was not ransacked, but there was no sign of her anywhere.
Who acts: hole, sign · What happens: make, be, not ransack · To what, where: Search, town, corner
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, sign), 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 | Search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 town | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hole | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 corner | cc |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | conj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ransacked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ransacked | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 ransacked | advmod |
| 20 | ransacked | ransack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 corner | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 was | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 was | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 sign | det |
| 26 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 was | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 anywhere | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 anywhere | nmod:poss |
| 29 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 sign | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Search | the town | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a hole or corner | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not ransack | past · passive | corner | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no sign | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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