The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 132

With the earliest rays of dawn he went back to the forest to see whether he could find any traces of the Yara, but though he searched every clump of bushes, and looked up every tree, everything was empty, and the only voices he heard were those of parrots, which are so ugly that they only drive people away.

Who acts: moon, everything, only voices, those, traces · What happens: go back, see, find, search, look up, be · To what, where: traces, clump, tree, only voices, those, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, everything, only voices, those), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 rays	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rays	det
3	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 rays	amod
4	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 find	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	ccomp
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 traces	det
20	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 find	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Yara	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Yara	det
23	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 traces	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 searched	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 searched	cc
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 searched	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 searched	nsubj
28	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 clump	det
30	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 searched	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 bushes	case
32	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 clump	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looked	cc
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 looked	compound:prt
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 tree	det
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looked	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 empty	punct
40	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	42 empty	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 empty	cop
42	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 looked	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 ugly	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 ugly	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 voices	det
46	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 voices	amod
47	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 those	nsubj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 heard	nsubj
49	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 voices	acl:relcl
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 those	cop
51	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	58 ugly	nsubj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 parrots	case
53	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 those	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 those	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 those	nmod
56	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 ugly	cop
57	so	so	ADV	_	58 ugly	advmod
58	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	parataxis
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 drive	mark
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 drive	nsubj
61	only	only	ADV	_	62 drive	advmod
62	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 ugly	advcl
63	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 drive	obj
64	away	away	ADV	_	62 drive	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	moon		dawn	with the earliest rays; to the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result
2	see	to-infinitive	moon not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find	could	moon	any traces of the Yara			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic
4	search	past	moon	every clump of bushes			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent clump=Location
5	look up	past	moon not said here	every tree			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Attribute
6	is	past	everything			empty property	tree rules
7	hear	past	moon	the only voices not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
8	is a	past	the only voices	those		of parrots	tree rules
9	is	present	those			ugly property	tree rules
10	drive away	present	traces = trace	people		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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