The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 3

‘I will search the whole world through till I find her,’ cried he, and the dark lad laughed as he heard him.

Who acts: I, son, dark lad · What happens: search, find, cry, laugh, hear · To what, where: whole world, fault, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son, dark lad), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 search	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 search	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 search	aux
4	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 world	amod
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 search	obj
8	through	through	SCONJ	_	11 find	mark
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 find	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 search	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 search	punct
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laughed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laughed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lad	det
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lad	amod
21	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laughed	nsubj
22	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cried	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 heard	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laughed	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	search	future	I	the whole world	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Location
2	find	present	I	fault	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past	son		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	laugh	past	the dark lad		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	son	him = he	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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