The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 71

Meanwhile, his daughter, herself nearly mad with grief, gave orders that the white slipper should be sought for far and wide; and so it was, but even the cleverest divers could find no trace of it at the bottom of the river.

Who acts: Slipper, cleverest divers · What happens: give, seek, be, find · To what, where: orders, white slipper, trace, bottom

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Slipper, cleverest divers), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	8 mad	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 herself	punct
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 daughter	conj
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 mad	advmod
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 grief	case
10	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mad	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mad	parataxis
13	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sought	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 slipper	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 slipper	amod
17	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sought	nsubj:pass
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sought	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 sought	aux:pass
20	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 orders	acl:relcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 far	case
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 sought	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wide	cc
24	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 far	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 was	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 was	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 was	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 find	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 find	cc
32	even	even	ADV	_	35 divers	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 divers	det
34	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 divers	amod
35	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 find	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 mad	parataxis
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 trace	det
39	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 trace	nmod
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 bottom	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bottom	det
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 river	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 river	det
47	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bottom	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	past		orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	seek	should · passive		the white slipper		tree rules
3	be	past	Slipper			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	could	the cleverest divers	no trace of Slipper	the bottom of the river	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent trace=Theme at bottom=Asset

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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