The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 73

The unhappy father searched the country for miles round without being able to find as much as a shoe or a handkerchief, to show him where they had passed, but at length a little boy came with news that he had seen the Stalo hiding behind a well, near which the children used to play.

Who acts: unhappy father, little boy, boy, Stalo, children · What happens: search, be, find, show, pass, come · To what, where: country, much, children, length, Stalo, well · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (unhappy father, little boy, boy, Stalo), 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	3 father	det
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 searched	nsubj
4	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 searched	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 miles	case
8	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 searched	obl
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 miles	advmod
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 able	mark
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 searched	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 find	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 shoe	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shoe	det
19	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 much	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 handkerchief	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 handkerchief	det
22	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shoe	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 show	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 show	mark
25	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 searched	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 show	iobj
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 passed	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 passed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 passed	aux
30	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 show	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 length	case
34	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 boy	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 boy	amod
37	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 searched	parataxis
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 news	case
40	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 seen	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 seen	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 seen	aux
44	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 came	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Stalo	det
46	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 seen	obl
47	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 Stalo	acl
48	behind	behind	ADP	_	50 well	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 well	det
50	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hiding	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 used	punct
52	near	near	ADP	_	53 which	case
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 used	obl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 children	det
55	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 used	nsubj
56	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 came	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 play	mark
58	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 used	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	search	past	the unhappy father	the country			for miles	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Location for mile=Theme
2	is	gerund	the unhappy father not said here				able property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	the unhappy father not said here	much			as a shoe or a handkerchief	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme as shoe=Attribute
4	show	to-infinitive			country			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	pass	past · perfect · passive		children = child				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
6	come	past	a little boy			length	with news	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
7	see	past · perfect	boy	the Stalo				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	hide	gerund	the Stalo not said here			a well		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind well=Location
9	use	past	the children					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	play	to-infinitive	the children not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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