The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 161
For three days and three nights she struggled through it, but could find nothing.
Who acts: mother · What happens: struggle, find · To what, where: bundle, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 struggled | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nights | cc |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nights | nummod |
| 6 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struggled | nsubj |
| 8 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struggled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 struggled | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | mother | bundle | day | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | could | mother not said here | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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