The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 26

But alas! the world of the air seemed as empty of her as the world below, and Souci was beginning to despair, and to think that he must go and search the world that lay in the sea.

Who acts: alas, Souci, world · What happens: seem, begin, despair, think, go, search · To what, where: world, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (alas, Souci, world), 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	_	9 seemed	cc
2	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 seemed	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 world	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alas	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 world	nmod
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 empty	case
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seemed	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 empty	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 empty	obl
17	below	below	ADV	_	16 world	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beginning	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beginning	cc
20	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 beginning	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beginning	aux
22	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 seemed	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 despair	mark
24	despair	despair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 beginning	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 think	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 think	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 think	mark
28	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 seemed	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 go	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 think	ccomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 search	cc
34	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 search	obj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 lay	nsubj
38	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 world	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 sea	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sea	det
41	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lay	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	alas the world of the air			empty property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past · progressive	Souci				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	despair	to-infinitive	Souci not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	must	Souci				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	search	infinitive	Souci not said here	the world			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Location
7	lie	past	the world		the sea		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location

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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