The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 84

Through the night no one slept, and when morning broke and the mist rolled back, they sought the maiden by sea and by land, but never a trace of her could be found anywhere.

Who acts: one, kids, mist · What happens: sleep, break, roll back, seek, find · To what, where: trace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, kids, mist), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	nsubj
6	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sought	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 broke	advmod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obl:unmarked
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sought	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rolled	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mist	det
14	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolled	nsubj
15	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 broke	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 rolled	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 broke	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sought	nsubj
19	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slept	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 maiden	det
21	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sought	xcomp
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 sea	case
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 maiden	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 land	cc
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 land	case
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sea	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 trace	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 trace	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 trace	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 trace	det
31	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slept	obl
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 found	mark
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 found	nmod:poss
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 found	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 found	aux:pass
36	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 trace	acl:relcl
37	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 found	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	no one	a trace	night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	past	kids = kid not said here		morning		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	roll back	past	the mist				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seek	past	kids = kid			maiden property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	could · passive		a trace not said here		anywhere property	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: «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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