The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 26
By this time the King had missed his dagger, and the search began all over again.
Who acts: King, search · What happens: miss, begin · To what, where: dagger
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 (King, search), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 missed | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 missed | aux |
| 7 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 search | det |
| 13 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 missed | conj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 over | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 again | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 began | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past · perfect | the King | King's dagger | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dagger=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the search | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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