The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 127

Some man is here,’ and began to look about for him; but they only saw their old grandmother, who answered, in a trembling voice, ‘No, my children, no!

Who acts: man, old grandmother · What happens: be, begin, look, see, answer · To what, where: old grandmother, trembling voice

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old grandmother), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 here	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 began	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 look	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 look	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 saw	advmod
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 grandmother	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grandmother	amod
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 answered	nsubj
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grandmother	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 voice	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 voice	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 voice	det
28	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 voice	compound
29	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 children	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 children	punct
32	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	35 children	discourse
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 No	punct
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 children	nmod:poss
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 no	punct
37	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 began	discourse
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	some man			here property	tree rules
2	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive				for husband; about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
4	see	past	man	man's old grandmother	a trembling voice	my children obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus
5	answer speech: assert	past	man's old grandmother				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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