The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 6

The servant set out at once on his journey, and sought high and low-in castles and cottages; but though pretty maidens were plentiful as blackberries, he felt sure that none of them would please the king.

Who acts: servant, pretty maidens, maiden, none · What happens: set out, seek, be, feel, please, journey · To what, where: journey, castles, king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, pretty maidens, maiden, none), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 set	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 journey	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 journey	nmod:poss
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sought	cc
12	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sought	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 low	cc
15	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 high	conj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 low	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 castles	case
18	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sought	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cottages	cc
20	cottages	cottage	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 castles	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 plentiful	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 plentiful	cc
23	though	though	ADV	_	27 plentiful	advmod
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 maidens	amod
25	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 plentiful	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 plentiful	cop
27	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	parataxis
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 blackberries	case
29	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 plentiful	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	nsubj
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 plentiful	conj
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 felt	xcomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 please	mark
35	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	39 please	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 none	nmod
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 please	aux
39	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 felt	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 king	det
41	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 please	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	the servant		servant's journey		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seek	past	the servant not said here		castles and cottages	high property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location
3	is	past	pretty maidens			as blackberries; plentiful, though property	tree rules
4	feel	past	maiden			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	please	would	none	the king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
6	journey		servant				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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