The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 147
No trace of Celia was to be seen, and the Prince, in despair, determined to search through the world till he found her.
Who acts: trace, prince · What happens: see, search, find · To what, where: trace, world, Celia
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 (trace, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 trace | det |
| 2 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Celia | case |
| 4 | Celia | Celia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trace | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 determined | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 determined | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 determined | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 despair | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 despair | case |
| 15 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 determined | punct |
| 17 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seen | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 search | mark |
| 19 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 determined | xcomp |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 search | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 search | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | no trace of Celia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | no trace of Celia not said here | the world | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through world=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | prince | Celia | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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