The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 32

‘Sire, I have been seeking her these two hours, but she is nowhere to be found.’

Who acts: I · What happens: seek, be · To what, where: Sire, Princess

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 (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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seeking	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 seeking	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seeking	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seeking	aux
7	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Sire	acl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hours	nmod:poss
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 hours	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hours	nummod
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seeking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 found	cop
16	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 found	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	19 found	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 found	aux:pass
19	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Sire	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	present · perfect · progressive	I	Sire not said here			hour		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sire=Theme
2	is	present · passive		Princess				find, nowhere property	tree rules

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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