The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 21

But though he sometimes found traces of her, or even messages scratched on a rock, or cut in the bark of a tree, she herself was nowhere to be found.

Who acts: much, princess · What happens: find, scratch, cut, be · To what, where: traces, messages, rock, bark

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, princess), 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	_	5 found	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 found	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	traces	trace	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 traces	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scratched	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 scratched	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 messages	advmod
12	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scratched	nsubj:pass
13	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 found	advcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 rock	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rock	det
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scratched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 scratched	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 bark	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bark	det
22	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tree	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bark	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nowhere	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 nowhere	nsubj
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 she	conj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 nowhere	cop
30	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 found	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 found	aux:pass
33	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 nowhere	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	much	traces of princess		sometimes property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic
2	scratch	participle · passive		messages	a rock		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on rock=Destination
3	cut	participle			the bark of a tree		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	princess			nowhere property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive · passive	princess not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/21/