Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 90
She sought for him about the castle, but could find him nowhere.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: seek, find · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | obl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sought | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 find | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | maiden | for thing; about the castle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme about castle=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | could | maiden not said here | thing | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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