The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 79

The baby splashed and crowed with delight, and then he gave a spring and fell right in, down, down, down, and his mother could not find him, though she searched all among the reeds.

Who acts: baby, mother · What happens: splash, crow, give, fall, not find, search · To what, where: baby, reeds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
3	splashed	splash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 baby	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crowed	cc
5	crowed	crow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 splashed	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 delight	case
7	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crowed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 gave	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spring	det
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
17	right	right	ADV	_	18 in	advmod
18	in	in	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 down	punct
20	down	down	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 down	punct
22	down	down	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 down	punct
24	down	down	ADV	_	22 down	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 find	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 find	advmod
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gave	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 searched	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 searched	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 searched	nsubj
36	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 find	ccomp
37	all	all	ADV	_	36 searched	advmod
38	among	among	ADP	_	40 reeds	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 reeds	det
40	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 searched	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	participle		the baby not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crow	participle					with delight	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	the baby			then; spring		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	fall	past	the baby not said here				down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not find	could	baby's mother	baby				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
6	search	past	mother		the reeds		all property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among reed=Location

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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