The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 25

Then there was a scurrying hither and thither, and a hunting everywhere: they looked into every place, from the wardrobes to the stoves, and the Queen herself ran about from the garret to the cellar, but the handkerchief was nowhere to be found.

Who acts: preparations, Queen · What happens: scurry, be, run about, find · To what, where: place, garret, handkerchief

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations, Queen), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hunting	det
5	scurrying	scurry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 hunting	csubj
6	hither	hither	ADV	_	5 scurrying	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thither	cc
8	thither	thither	ADV	_	6 hither	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hunting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hunting	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hunting	det
12	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 hunting	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wardrobes	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 wardrobes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wardrobes	det
23	wardrobes	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 stoves	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stoves	det
26	stoves	stove	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wardrobes	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ran	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ran	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Queen	det
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ran	nsubj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 ran	nsubj
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 looked	conj
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 ran	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 garret	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 garret	det
36	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ran	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 cellar	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cellar	det
39	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 garret	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 found	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 found	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 handkerchief	det
43	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 found	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 found	aux:pass
45	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	48 found	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	48 found	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 found	aux:pass
48	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 looked	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scurry	gerund				hither property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	preparations = preparation		every place	look property	tree rules
3	run about	past	the Queen		the garret to the cellar	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from garret=Trajectory
4	find	past · passive		the handkerchief		nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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