The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 2

Now it happened that one of their sheep went astray, and they set out to look for it, and searched and searched, each in a different part of the wood.

Who acts: it, one, man · What happens: happen, go, set out, look, search · To what, where: each, different part

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, one, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 went	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sheep	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sheep	nmod:poss
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
10	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 set	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	nsubj
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 look	mark
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 set	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 look	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 searched	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 searched	cc
22	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 searched	cc
24	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 searched	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 each	punct
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 searched	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 part	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 part	det
29	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 part	amod
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 searched	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 wood	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wood	det
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	one of man's sheep				astray property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set out	past	man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	to-infinitive	man not said here				for it	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
5	search	past						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	search	past		each	a different part of the wood			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location

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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