The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 100
There was not a spot round about which they did not search, thinking that somehow the child might have got out of the pail and hidden itself for fun; but the little girl was not there, and there was no sign of her.
Who acts: spot, men, child, little girl, sign · What happens: be, not search, think, get out, hide, not be · To what, where: spot, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spot, men, child, little girl), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 spot | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 spot | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 search | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 search | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 search | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 search | advmod |
| 12 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinking | punct |
| 14 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 search | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 got | mark |
| 16 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 thinking | ccomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pail | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pail | det |
| 25 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hidden | cc |
| 27 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 got | conj |
| 28 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 hidden | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 fun | case |
| 30 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hidden | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 there | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 there | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 girl | amod |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 there | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 there | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 there | advmod |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 was | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 was | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 was | cc |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 was | expl |
| 42 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 there | parataxis |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 sign | det |
| 44 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 was | nsubj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sign | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a spot | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not search | past · do-support | men = man | about a spot | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about which=Location | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | men = man not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get out | might · perfect | the child | of the pail; out, somehow property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of pail=Source | ||||
| 5 | hide | participle | the child not said here | spot | for fun | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 6 | not is | past | the little girl | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | past | no sign of girl | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sign | girl | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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