Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 24
The boy searched everywhere for it, but he searched in vain, for it could not be found; it was gone.
Who acts: boy, more · What happens: search, not find, be · To what, where: vain, more
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, more), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 searched | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 searched | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 searched | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 searched | nsubj |
| 10 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 vain | case |
| 12 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 searched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 found | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 found | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 searched | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gone | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | cop |
| 23 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | the boy | for more; everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | past | boy | vain | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location | ||||
| 3 | not find | could · passive | more | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | more | gone property | tree rules |
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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