The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 109
During the ball she looked everywhere for the gardener’s boy, but she never saw him.
Who acts: heat · What happens: look, not see · To what, where: boy
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heat), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 ball | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gardener | det |
| 9 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 gardener | case |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 saw | advmod |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | heat | during the ball | for the gardener's boy; everywhere property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for boy=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | past | heat | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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