The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 103

High and low they looked for it, but nowhere could they find it, and the farmer, who had come to see his daughter, was greatly grieved, as he feared it might be thought that he had stolen it, because he did not want the hoodie for a son-in-law.

Who acts: wings, farmer · What happens: look, find, come, see, grieve, fear · To what, where: house, daughter, farmer, hoodie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, farmer), 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	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 low	cc
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 High	conj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 find	cc
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 find	advmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 looked	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grieved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grieved	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 farmer	det
18	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grieved	nsubj:pass
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 come	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 farmer	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 farmer	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 grieved	aux:pass
29	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	30 grieved	advmod
30	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 find	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 feared	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 feared	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 feared	nsubj
34	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 grieved	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 thought	nsubj:pass
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 thought	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 thought	aux:pass
38	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 feared	ccomp
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 stolen	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stolen	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 stolen	aux
42	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 thought	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stolen	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 want	punct
45	because	because	SCONJ	_	49 want	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 want	nsubj
47	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 want	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 want	advmod
49	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 stolen	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 hoodie	det
51	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 want	obj
52	for	for	ADP	_	58 law	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 law	det
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 law	nsubj
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 law	punct
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 law	case
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 in	punct
58	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 want	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	wings = wing		for house	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
2	find	could	wings = wing	house	nowhere property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	the farmer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here	farmer's daughter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
5	grieve	past · passive		the farmer	greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	fear	past	farmer			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	think speech: other	might · passive		house		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
8	steal	past · perfect	farmer	house		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
9	not want	past · do-support	farmer	the hoodie	for a law	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hoodie=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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