The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 19

When the girl had finished she went back to find the cows, but they had gone, and though she hunted everywhere she never found them; and she had to return home and confess to her master, who scolded her bitterly, and afterwards beat her.

Who acts: girl, cows, master · What happens: finish, go back, find, go, hunt, not find · To what, where: girl, cows, master

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, cows, master), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 finished	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 went	advcl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cows	det
12	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 find	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gone	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 went	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 hunted	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hunted	nsubj
22	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 found	advcl
23	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 hunted	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 found	advmod
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 return	mark
33	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 return	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 confess	cc
36	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 return	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 master	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 master	nmod:poss
39	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 confess	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 scolded	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 scolded	nsubj
42	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 master	acl:relcl
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 scolded	obj
44	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	42 scolded	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 beat	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 beat	cc
47	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	48 beat	advmod
48	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	conj
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 beat	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		the girl			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	go back	past	girl				tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the cows			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Topic
4	go	past · perfect	cows = cow				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hunt	past	girl			everywhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not find	past	girl	cows = cow			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
7	have	past	girl				tree rules
8	return	to-infinitive	girl not said here			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	confess	infinitive	girl not said here		girl's master		vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient
10	scold	past	girl's master	girl		bitterly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
11	beat	past	girl not said here	girl		afterwards property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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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