The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 56

The mother of the Stalos looked round for her iron cane, which she always used to kill her victims, but it was not there, for Lyma had put it in the fire.

Who acts: mother, cane · What happens: look round, use, kill, not be, put · To what, where: iron cane, victims, Lyma, fire

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, cane), 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	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Stalos	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Stalos	det
5	Stalos	Stalos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 cane	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cane	nmod:poss
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cane	compound
11	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 used	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 used	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 used	advmod
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cane	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 kill	mark
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 victims	nmod:poss
20	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kill	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 there	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 there	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 there	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 there	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 there	advmod
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 looked	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 put	mark
29	Lyma	Lyma	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 put	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 looked	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 fire	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fire	det
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look round	past	the mother of the Stalos			for mother's iron cane; round property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cane=Theme
2	use	past	mother	mother's iron cane		always property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	kill	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother's victims			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Theme
4	not is	past	cane			there property	tree rules
5	put	past · perfect · passive		Lyma	the fire		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset it=Goal

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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