The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 106

But no voice answered them; and they fell to searching all about, lest perchance their sister might have dropped some clue to guide them.

Who acts: voice, sheds, sister · What happens: answer, fall, search, drop, guide · To what, where: sheds, clue

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, sheds, sister), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 voice	det
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 searching	case
11	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fell	advcl
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 about	advmod
13	about	about	ADV	_	11 searching	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dropped	punct
15	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	16 perchance	case
16	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dropped	obl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dropped	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dropped	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 dropped	aux
21	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 fell	parataxis
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 clue	det
23	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dropped	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 guide	mark
25	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dropped	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 guide	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	no voice		sheds = shed		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	fall	past	sheds = shed				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	search	gerund	sheds = shed not said here			about property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	drop	might · perfect	sheds's sister	some clue		lest perchance	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme
5	guide	to-infinitive	sheds's sister not said here	sheds = shed			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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