The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 45
So he went and searched and searched for the other shoe for a long, long time, but no shoe was to be found, and at last he was forced to go back with the one which he had.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: go, search, find, force, go back, have · To what, where: shoe, fellow, last, one
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 searched | cc |
| 5 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 searched | cc |
| 7 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 shoe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shoe | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shoe | amod |
| 11 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 searched | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 searched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 shoe | det |
| 21 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 forced | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 forced | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 last | case |
| 29 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forced | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 forced | aux:pass |
| 32 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 forced | xcomp |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 one | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 had | obj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 one | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fellow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | search | past | fellow not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | search | past | fellow not said here | time | for the other shoe | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for shoe=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | past · passive | no shoe | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | force | past · passive | fellow | last | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go back | to-infinitive | fellow not said here | with the one | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | have | past | fellow | the one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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