The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 105

“If I were to search all the world through I could never find a more powerful son-in-law.”

Who acts: negro · What happens: search, not find · To what, where: world, powerful son, law

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negro), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 search	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 search	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 search	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 search	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 search	mark
6	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 world	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 search	obj
10	through	through	SCONJ	_	14 find	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 search	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 son	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 powerful	advmod
17	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 son	amod
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 law	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 law	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 in	punct
22	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 son	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 search	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 search	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search in a quote	past	a negro = negro	all world					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Location
2	not find in a quote	could	a negro = negro	a powerful son		law			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic

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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