The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 87
After inquiring of everyone who was likely to know, Moti seized the cord and his big staff and sallied out to look for him.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: inquire, be, know, seize, sally out, look · To what, where: cord
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 inquiring | mark |
| 2 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 seized | advcl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 everyone | case |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 inquiring | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 likely | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 likely | cop |
| 7 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 likely | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 inquiring | punct |
| 11 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | nsubj |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cord | det |
| 14 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 staff | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 staff | nmod:poss |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 staff | amod |
| 18 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cord | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sallied | cc |
| 20 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seized | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sallied | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sallied | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | gerund | Moti not said here | of everyone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of everyone=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | seize | past | Moti | the cord and Moti's big staff | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sally out | past | Moti not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | Moti not said here | for Moti | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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 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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