The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 46

But Peder was safe in the woods, and could not be found.

Who acts: Peder · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: woods

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peder), 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 safe	cc
2	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 safe	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 safe	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 found	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 found	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 found	aux:pass
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 safe	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peder			the woods		safe property	tree rules
2	not find	could · passive							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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