The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 66
Day after day he searched and called; and evening after evening he returned in despair.
Who acts: Day, man · What happens: search, call, return · To what, where: despair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, man), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 searched | nsubj |
| 5 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 searched | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 evening | cc |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 evening | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 searched | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 despair | case |
| 16 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | Day after day | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | past | Day after day not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | past | man | despair | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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