The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 95

She looked all about for Percinet, but he was nowhere to be seen; so she had no choice but to go to the Duchess Grumbly’s room.

Who acts: duchess · What happens: look, see, have, go · To what, where: face, choice, room

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duchess), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 about	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Percinet	case
6	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 seen	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux:pass
11	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 seen	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	14 seen	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 seen	aux:pass
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 looked	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 had	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 choice	det
20	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 go	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	29 room	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Grumbly	det
26	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Grumbly	compound
27	Grumbly	Grumbly	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 room	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Grumbly	case
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	duchess			for Percinet; about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for percinet=Theme
2	see	past · passive		face		nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	have	past	duchess	no choice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient
4	go	to-infinitive	duchess not said here		the Duchess Grumbly's room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_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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