The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 75

But search as she would she could find none.

Who acts: you, One · What happens: search, find · To what, where: none

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, One), 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	_	2 search	cc
2	search	search	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 find	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 search	advcl
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 find	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 search	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	imperative	you not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	find	could	One	none					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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