The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 81

For days after that they sought her high and low.

Who acts: clouds · What happens: seek

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 days	case
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sought	obl
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 sought	mark
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sought	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sought	nsubj
6	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 high	nmod:poss
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sought	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 low	cc
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 high	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	clouds = cloud				day	high property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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