The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 165
Round the house she went, in search of steps, but could find none.
Who acts: door · What happens: go, find, search · To what, where: search, none, steps
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 (door), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 search | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 search | case |
| 8 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 steps | case |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 search | nmod |
| 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 | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | door | search of steps | round the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | could | door not said here | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | ||||
| 3 | search | steps | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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