The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 146

But just now his first care was for Celia, and rising into the air he flew round and round the house, until he saw an open window; but he searched through every room in vain.

Who acts: first care, prince · What happens: be, rise, fly, round, see, search · To what, where: air, Celia, house, open window, room

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first care, prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 Celia	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	9 Celia	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 Celia	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 care	nmod:poss
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 care	amod
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Celia	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Celia	cop
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Celia	case
9	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
12	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 flew	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rising	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Celia	acl:relcl
18	round	round	ADV	_	17 flew	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 round	cc
20	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 flew	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 round	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 saw	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 round	advcl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 window	det
28	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 window	amod
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 saw	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 searched	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 searched	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 searched	nsubj
33	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Celia	acl:relcl
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 room	case
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 room	det
36	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 searched	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 vain	case
38	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 searched	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Celia	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	prince's first care			now	for Celia	tree rules
2	rise	gerund	prince not said here		the air			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
3	fly	past	prince	Celia not said here			round property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location celia=Theme
4	round	infinitive	prince not said here	the house				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient
5	see	past	prince	a open window				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Stimulus
6	search	past	prince	Celia not said here	every room		in vain	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent celia=Location
7	care		prince					nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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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