The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 13

But though they searched that day and the next, and the next after that, they never found it, because it never came down.

Who acts: eyes, ball · What happens: search, not find, not come down · To what, where: ball

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, ball), 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	_	19 found	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 searched	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 searched	nsubj
4	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	advcl
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 searched	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 next	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 next	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 searched	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 next	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 next	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 next	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 searched	conj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 next	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 searched	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 found	advmod
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 came	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 came	advmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	eyes = eye		day		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	not find	past	eyes = eye	ball			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	not come down	past	ball			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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