The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 103

But in vain he rummaged in all the drawers; he found nothing; all had been spent.

Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: rummage, find, spend · To what, where: vain, nothing, all

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 rummaged	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 vain	case
3	vain	vain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rummaged	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rummaged	nsubj
5	rummaged	rummage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 drawers	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 drawers	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drawers	det
9	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rummaged	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rummaged	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 found	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 spent	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 spent	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spent	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 spent	aux:pass
18	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rummaged	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rummaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rummage	past	Drakestail		vain	in all drawers	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location
2	find	past	Drakestail	nothing			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	spend	past · perfect · passive		all			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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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