The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 77

So she searched for a high tree, and when she had found one she climbed up it and spun all day long, never laughing or speaking one word.

Who acts: girl · What happens: search, find, climb up, spin, not laugh, speak · To what, where: one, tree, one word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	_	3 searched	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 searched	nsubj
3	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 searched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 climbed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 climbed	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 found	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	aux
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 climbed	advcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 found	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 climbed	nsubj
16	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 climbed	compound:prt
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 climbed	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spun	cc
20	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 climbed	conj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spun	obl:unmarked
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 spun	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laughing	punct
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 laughing	advmod
26	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 spun	advcl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 speaking	cc
28	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 laughing	conj
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 word	nummod
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 speaking	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	girl			for a high tree	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for tree=Theme
2	find	past · perfect	girl	one			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	climb up	past	girl	tree			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
4	spin	past	girl not said here		day	long property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	not laugh	gerund	girl not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	speak speech: other	gerund	girl not said here	one word			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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