The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 55

As soon as it was light, Felicia, who was very unhappy about her pot of pinks, went out to look for it, and the first thing she found was the unfortunate cabbage.

Who acts: voice, cabbage, first thing · What happens: be, go out, look, find · To what, where: first thing, unfortunate cabbage

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, cabbage, first thing), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 light	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 light	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 light	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Felicia	punct
8	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 light	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unhappy	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 unhappy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unhappy	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 unhappy	advmod
13	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 pot	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pot	nmod:poss
16	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unhappy	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 pinks	case
18	pinks	pink	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pot	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	conj
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 went	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cabbage	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cabbage	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cabbage	nsubj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 thing	acl:relcl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cabbage	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cabbage	det
35	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cabbage	amod
36	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	voice		Felicia obl; light, soon property	tree rules
2	is	past			about Felicia's pot of pinks; unhappy property	tree rules
3	go out	past	voice not said here		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	to-infinitive	voice not said here		for voice	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
5	find	past	cabbage	the first thing not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
6	is a	past	the first thing	the unfortunate cabbage		tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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