The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 104

And they began their search all over again; but neither fairies nor wild beasts did they meet with, and with sore hearts they gave it up at last and turned sadly into the hut.

Who acts: fairies · What happens: begin, meet, give up, turn, search · To what, where: search, beast, last, hut

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 (fairies), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 search	nmod:poss
5	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 again	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 again	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 meet	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 meet	cc
11	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	12 fairies	det
12	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 meet	nsubj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 beasts	cc
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beasts	amod
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fairies	conj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 meet	aux
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meet	nsubj
18	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	parataxis
19	with	with	ADP	_	18 meet	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 hearts	case
23	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hearts	amod
24	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 gave	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 gave	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gave	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 turned	cc
32	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gave	conj
33	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	32 turned	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 hut	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hut	det
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	fairies = fairy	fairies's search		again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality
2	meet	past · do-support	neither fairies nor wild beasts					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give up	past	fairies = fairy	beast	last		with sore hearts	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
4	turn	past	fairies = fairy not said here		the hut		sadly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hut=Trajectory
5	search		fairies = fairy					nom search «act 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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