The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 57

But though he visited every corner and chest and cupboard, she was not in any of them, and after eight days he gave it up and his head was cut off.

Who acts: king · What happens: visit, give up, cut off · To what, where: corner, cupboard, head

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 visited	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 visited	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 visited	nsubj
4	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visited	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 chest	cc
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cupboard	cc
10	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 any	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 any	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 any	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 any	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 any	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 visited	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 any	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 days	case
22	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 days	nummod
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gave	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	nsubj
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 visited	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 gave	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cut	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cut	aux:pass
32	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 gave	conj
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 cut	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	visit	past	king	every corner and chest and cupboard		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Co-Agent
2	give up	past	king	cupboard	day	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
3	cut off	past · passive		king's head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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