The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 37
So the page hunted hither and thither, but Fanfaronade was no more to be found than the Princess, the dagger, or the neck-handkerchief!
Who acts: page, Fanfaronade · What happens: hunt, not be, find · To what, where: neck 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 (page, Fanfaronade), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 hunted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 page | det |
| 3 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunted | nsubj |
| 4 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 4 hunted | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thither | cc |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 5 hither | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 more | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 10 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 more | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 more | cop |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 hunted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 found | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 more | advcl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dagger | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dagger | det |
| 22 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Princess | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 handkerchief | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 handkerchief | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 handkerchief | det |
| 26 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 handkerchief | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 neck | punct |
| 28 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunted | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | the page | the neck handkerchief | hither property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not is | past | Fanfaronade | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive · passive | Fanfaronade not said here | than the Princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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