The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 69

Up and down the garden she searched, spying into every corner, but not a sign of it was to be found.

Who acts: princess · What happens: search, spy, find, sign · To what, where: corner, sign

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Up	up	ADV	_	7 searched	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 garden	cc
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 searched	nsubj
7	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spying	punct
9	spying	spy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 searched	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 sign	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sign	det
17	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sign	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux:pass
21	to	to	PART	_	23 found	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	aux:pass
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 searched	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	search	past	princess			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	spy	gerund	princess not said here		every corner	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	past · passive		a sign of corner		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	sign			corner		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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