The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 71

But when Little Lasse wanted to row there were no oars to be found in the boat.

Who acts: Little, oars · What happens: want, row, be, find · To what, where: boat

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, oars), 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	_	9 were	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 wanted	mark
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wanted	nsubj
4	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Little	flat
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 were	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 row	mark
7	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 oars	det
11	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 found	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 oars	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 boat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boat	det
17	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	want	past	Little		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	row not said to happen	to-infinitive	Little not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	no oars	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	to-infinitive · passive	no oars not said here	the boat	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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