The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 19

‘Alas! mother,’ answered the Prince, ‘I have lost my sweet shepherdess, but I am determined to find her again, though I should have to traverse the whole world in search of her.’

Who acts: mother, I · What happens: answer, lose, be, find, have, traverse · To what, where: Prince, sweet shepherdess, mother, whole world, search

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (mother, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 mother	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 answered	parataxis
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shepherdess	nmod:poss
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shepherdess	amod
17	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 determined	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 determined	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 determined	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 determined	cop
22	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lost	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 determined	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 find	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 find	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 traverse	mark
33	traverse	traverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 have	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 world	amod
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 traverse	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 search	case
38	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 traverse	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 search	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	mother		the Prince				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	lose	present · perfect	I	my sweet shepherdess					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherdess=Eventuality
3	is	present	I					determined property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	mother			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	have	should	I						tree rules
6	traverse	to-infinitive	I not said here	the whole world		search of mother			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Co-Theme
7	search			mother					nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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