The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 56

He searched every thicket and path, he looked behind every tree, and gazed into every pond, but without success; then he hastened into the palace and rushed from room to room, peering into every hole and corner and calling her by name; but only echo answered in the marble halls—there was neither voice nor footstep.

Who acts: head, voice · What happens: search, look, gaze, hasten, rush, peer · To what, where: thicket, palace, room, pretty, marble halls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, voice), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 thicket	det
4	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 searched	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 path	cc
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thicket	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gazed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gazed	cc
15	gazed	gaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 searched	parataxis
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 pond	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 pond	det
18	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gazed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 success	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 success	cc
21	without	without	ADP	_	22 success	case
22	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gazed	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 hastened	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 hastened	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hastened	nsubj
26	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hastened	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rushed	cc
31	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 hastened	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 room	case
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rushed	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 room	case
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 room	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 peering	punct
37	peering	peer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 rushed	advcl
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 hole	case
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 hole	det
40	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 peering	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 corner	cc
42	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hole	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 calling	cc
44	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 peering	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 calling	obj
46	by	by	ADP	_	47 name	case
47	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 calling	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 echo	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 echo	cc
50	only	only	ADV	_	51 echo	advmod
51	echo	echo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
52	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 echo	xcomp
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 halls	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 halls	det
55	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 halls	compound
56	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 answered	obl
57	—	-	PUNCT	_	59 was	punct
58	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	59 was	expl
59	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
60	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	61 voice	cc:preconj
61	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 was	nsubj
62	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	63 footstep	cc
63	footstep	footstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 voice	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	head	every thicket and path					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thicket=Location
2	look	past	head					behind every tree	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind tree=Theme
3	gaze	participle						into every pond	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into pond=Theme
4	hasten	past	head			the palace	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination
5	rush	participle	head not said here			room to room			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from room=Trajectory
6	peer	gerund	head not said here					into every hole and corner	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hole=Theme
7	call	gerund	head not said here		pretty			by name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
8	echo	infinitive							tree rules
9	answer speech: assert	participle				the marble halls			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	be	past	voice nor footstep			there			vn exist-47.1 «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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