The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 82
They examined every bush and every hedge, but there was no Snowflake.
Who acts: clouds, Snowflake · What happens: examine, be · To what, where: bush
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, Snowflake), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 examined | nsubj |
| 2 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bush | det |
| 4 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 examined | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hedge | cc |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hedge | det |
| 7 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bush | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 examined | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 Snowflake | det |
| 13 | Snowflake | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | clouds = cloud | every bush and every hedge | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no Snowflake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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