The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 68
But when it was time to go on again the basket had disappeared and, though she looked everywhere, not a trace of it could she find.
Who acts: tree, basket, Bellissima · What happens: be, go on, disappear, look, find · To what, where: time, trace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, basket, Bellissima), 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 | _ | 13 disappeared | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 time | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappeared | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 basket | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappeared | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 disappeared | aux |
| 13 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 find | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 looked | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 disappeared | conj |
| 19 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 looked | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trace | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 trace | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 trace | det |
| 23 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 trace | nmod |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | nsubj |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | to-infinitive | the basket not said here | again | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the basket | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | Bellissima | a trace of tree | everywhere property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | find | could | Bellissima | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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