The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 72

After seeking me everywhere he believed that I must have been drowned, or eaten up by wild beasts in the forest.

Who acts: husband · What happens: seek, believe, drown, eat up · To what, where: me, I · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (husband), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 seeking	mark
2	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 believed	advcl
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seeking	obj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 believed	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believed	nsubj
6	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 drowned	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 drowned	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 drowned	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 drowned	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 drowned	aux:pass
12	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 believed	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 eaten	cc
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 drowned	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 eaten	compound:prt
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 beasts	case
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beasts	amod
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eaten	obl:agent
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beasts	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seek	gerund	husband not said here	me		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	believe	past	husband		everywhere property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	drown	must · perfect · passive		I		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	eat up	participle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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