Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 106

The old man searched, and the little boy searched, but he was gone, and could not be found. "

Who acts: old man, little boy, man · What happens: search, be, not find

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, little boy, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 searched	nsubj
4	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 searched	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 searched	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 searched	nsubj
10	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 searched	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 gone	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gone	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 searched	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 found	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 found	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 found	aux:pass
21	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 gone	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 searched	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	search	past	the old man		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	search	past	the little boy		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	man	gone property	tree rules
4	not find	could · passive	man not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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