The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 32

‘Why, there are no roses here!’ cried Gerda,, and she hunted amongst all the flowers, but not one was to be found.

Who acts: roses, many · What happens: cry, hunt, find · To what, where: flowers, one

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, many), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	advcl:relcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 roses	det
7	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	nsubj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 roses	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 roses	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 roses	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 are	parataxis
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	flat
13	,,	,,	PUNCT	_	16 hunted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hunted	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hunted	nsubj
16	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
17	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 flowers	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunted	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 one	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 found	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 found	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 found	aux:pass
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cried	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	no roses			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	past	many		all flowers	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst flower=Location
3	find	past · passive		one		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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