The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 93

At last the wives gave up all hope of their return; but, being sensible women, they did not sit down and cry, but called their children, and set out, determined to seek the whole world over till the missing husbands were found.

Who acts: last wives, sisters, return · What happens: give up, be, not sit down, cry, call, set out · To what, where: hope, sensible women, children, whole world, missing husbands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last wives, sisters, return), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wives	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wives	det
4	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hope	det
8	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 return	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 return	nmod:poss
11	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hope	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sensible	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sensible	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 but	punct
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sensible	cop
16	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 women	amod
17	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sit	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sit	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 sit	advmod
22	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	parataxis
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 sit	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cry	cc
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sit	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 called	cc
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sit	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 children	nmod:poss
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 called	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sit	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 set	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 determined	punct
36	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sit	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 seek	mark
38	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 determined	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 world	amod
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seek	obj
42	over	over	ADV	_	38 seek	advmod
43	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 found	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 husbands	det
45	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 husbands	amod
46	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 found	nsubj:pass
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 found	aux:pass
48	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 seek	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the last wives	all hope of sisters's return	sensible women		tree rules
2	is	gerund				sensible property	tree rules
3	not sit down	past · do-support	sisters = sister				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	infinitive	sisters = sister not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call	past	sisters = sister not said here		sisters's children		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
6	set out	infinitive	sisters = sister not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	determine	participle	sisters = sister not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	seek	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here	the whole world		over property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
9	find	past · passive		the missing husbands			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
10	hope		sisters's return				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
11	return		sisters = sister				nom return «communication intransitive»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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