The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 41

The Princess went poking about and searching everywhere, high and low, and wanted to go into Dapplegrim’s stall too, but he began to bite and kick about so that she was afraid to go there, and could not find the youth.

Who acts: Princess, Dapplegrim · What happens: go, poke about, search, want, begin, bite · To what, where: stall, youth

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Princess, Dapplegrim), 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 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 went	xcomp
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 poking	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 searching	cc
7	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 poking	conj
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 searching	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 high	punct
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 searching	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 low	cc
12	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 high	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wanted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wanted	cc
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 stall	case
19	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 stall	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Dapplegrim	case
21	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
22	too	too	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wanted	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 bite	mark
28	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kick	cc
30	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bite	conj
31	about	about	ADV	_	30 kick	advmod
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 afraid	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 afraid	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 afraid	cop
36	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kick	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 go	mark
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 afraid	xcomp
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 go	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 find	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 find	cc
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 find	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 find	advmod
44	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 youth	det
46	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 find	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	poke about	gerund	the Princess not said here			about property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	search	gerund	the Princess not said here			everywhere, high property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive			Dapplegrim's stall		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stall=Initial_Location
6	begin	past	Dapplegrim				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	bite	to-infinitive	Dapplegrim not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
8	kick about	infinitive	Dapplegrim not said here			about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
9	is	past	Princess			afraid property	tree rules
10	go	to-infinitive	Princess not said here		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	not find	could		the youth			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic

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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