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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 69

After Ball-Carrier had managed to drown the Bad One so that he could not do any more mischief, he forgot the way to his grandmother’s house, and could not find it again, though he searched everywhere.

Who acts: Carrier · What happens: manage, drown, not do, forget, not find, search · To what, where: Bad One, more mischief, way

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carrier), 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

caseoblpunctconjauxmarkxcompdetamodobjmarkfixednsubjauxadvmodadvcldetamodobjpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctccauxadvmodparataxisobjadvmodpunctmarknsubjconjadvmodpunctrootAfterADPBallPROPN-PUNCTCarrierPROPNhadAUXmanagedVERBtoPARTdrownVERBtheDETBadADJOneNOUNsoSCONJthatSCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARTdoVERBanyDETmoreADJmischiefNOUN,PUNCThePRONforgotVERBtheDETwayNOUNtoADPhisPRONgrandmotherNOUN’sPARThouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJcouldAUXnotPARTfindVERBitPRONagainADV,PUNCTthoughSCONJhePRONsearchedVERBeverywhereADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_2 Ballcase
2BallBallPROPNNumber=Sing6 managedobl
3--PUNCT_4 Carrierpunct
4CarrierCarrierPROPNNumber=Sing2 Ballconj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 managedaux
6managedmanageVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
7totoPART_8 drownmark
8drowndrownVERBVerbForm=Inf6 managedxcomp
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Onedet
10BadbadADJDegree=Pos11 Oneamod
11OneoneNOUNNumber=Sing8 drownobj
12sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ17 domark
13thatthatSCONJ_12 sofixed
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 donsubj
15couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 doaux
16notnotPARTPolarity=Neg17 doadvmod
17dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf8 drownadvcl
18anyanyDETPronType=Ind20 mischiefdet
19moremoreADJDegree=Cmp20 mischiefamod
20mischiefmischiefNOUNNumber=Sing17 doobj
21,,PUNCT_23 forgotpunct
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 forgotnsubj
23forgotforgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 managedparataxis
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 waydet
25waywayNOUNNumber=Sing23 forgotobj
26totoADP_30 housecase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 grandmothernmod:poss
28grandmothergrandmotherNOUNNumber=Sing30 housenmod:poss
29’s'sPART_28 grandmothercase
30househouseNOUNNumber=Sing23 forgotobl
31,,PUNCT_35 findpunct
32andandCCONJ_35 findcc
33couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin35 findaux
34notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 findadvmod
35findfindVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin6 managedparataxis
36ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 findobj
37againagainADV_35 findadvmod
38,,PUNCT_41 searchedpunct
39thoughthoughSCONJ_41 searchedmark
40hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 searchednsubj
41searchedsearchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 findconj
42everywhereeverywhereADVPronType=Tot41 searchedadvmod
43..PUNCT_6 managedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1managepast · perfectafter Ball and Carriervn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2drownto-infinitivethe Bad Onevn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3not docouldCarrierany more mischiefvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality
4forgetpastCarrierthe wayto Carrier's grandmother's housetree rules
5not findcouldwayagainvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6searchpastCarriereverywhere propertyvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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