The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 60

Her shrieks brought back the guards, but though they looked in all kinds of impossible places no man was to be seen, and so they told the princess.

Who acts: shrieks, men, princess · What happens: bring back, look, see, tell, shriek · To what, where: guards, man, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrieks, men, princess), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shrieks	nmod:poss
2	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 looked	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 kinds	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 kinds	det
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 looked	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 places	case
16	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 places	amod
17	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kinds	nmod
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seen	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux:pass
21	to	to	PART	_	23 seen	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 places	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 told	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	princess's shrieks	the guards			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent guard=Theme
2	look	past	shrieks = shriek			in all kinds of impossible places	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kind=Theme
3	see	past · passive	shrieks = shriek not said here	no man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	men = man		the princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
5	shriek		princess				nom shriek «communication 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 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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