The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 22
She had just returned from town, and was crying at not finding Jack.
Who acts: mother · What happens: return, cry, not find · To what, where: town, Jack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crying | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crying | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crying | aux |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 finding | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 finding | advmod |
| 13 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 crying | advcl |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 finding | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · perfect | mother | town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | mother not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not find | gerund | mother not said here | Jack | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=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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