The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 76

However, by-and-by he saw that it was no use weeping and wailing, and commanded that they should search for his lost treasure more diligently than ever.

Who acts: intelligence, food, weeping · What happens: see, be, command, search, lose, treasure · To what, where: use weeping · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (intelligence, food, weeping), 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	However	however	ADV	_	9 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	1 However	fixed
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 and	punct
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 weeping	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 weeping	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 weeping	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 weeping	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weeping	compound
15	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wailing	cc
17	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weeping	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 commanded	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 commanded	cc
20	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 search	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 search	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 search	aux
24	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 commanded	advcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 treasure	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 treasure	nmod:poss
27	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 treasure	amod
28	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 search	obl
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 diligently	advmod
30	diligently	diligently	ADV	_	24 search	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 ever	case
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 diligently	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	intelligence		however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	food	no use weeping and wailing		tree rules
3	command	past	intelligence not said here			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
4	search	should	weeping		for intelligence's lost treasure; diligently property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for treasure=Theme
5	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	treasure		intelligence			nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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