The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 88

Upon that she went away from Owen, and when the men came out from the castle to seek him and did not find him they were sorely grieved, and they returned to the castle.

Who acts: drawbridge, men · What happens: go away, come out, seek, not find, grieve, return · To what, where: Owen, castle, horse, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawbridge, men), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 went	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Owen	case
7	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 seek	mark
19	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seek	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 find	advmod
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seek	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grieved	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grieved	aux:pass
28	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	29 grieved	advmod
29	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 find	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 returned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 returned	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 returned	nsubj
33	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 castle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 castle	det
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 returned	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	drawbridge		Owen	upon that; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from owen=Initial_Location
2	come out	past	the men		the castle	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	seek	to-infinitive	the men not said here	horse			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not find	past · do-support	the men not said here	horse			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
5	grieve	past · passive		men = man		sorely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	return	past	men = man			to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result

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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