The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 60
The girl searched for strawberries, but she found none, and returned home in a very bad temper.
Who acts: girl, first · What happens: search, find, return · To what, where: none, bad temper
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (girl, first), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 strawberries | case |
| 5 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 searched | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 returned | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 temper | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 temper | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 bad | advmod |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 temper | amod |
| 19 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | the girl | for strawberries | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for strawberry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | first | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return | past | a bad temper | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/60/