Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 25
Then they swam off and searched, nor was there a single corner of the sea where they searched not.
Who acts: daughters, single corner · What happens: swim off, search, be, not search
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, single corner), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 swam | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 swam | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 searched | cc |
| 6 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 there | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 there | cop |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 searched | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 corner | amod |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 there | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 corner | nmod |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 searched | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 searched | nsubj |
| 19 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sea | acl:relcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 searched | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim off | past | daughters = daughter | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | past | daughters = daughter not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a single corner of the sea | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not search | past | daughters = daughter | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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