The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 46

In vain he described the bird to his attendants, who rushed at his first call; in vain they sought the wonderful creature both on horse and foot, and summoned the fowlers to their aid: the bird could nowhere be found.

Who acts: bird, attendants, cures, aid · What happens: describe, rush, seek, summon, find, call · To what, where: bird, vain, first call, wonderful creature, fowlers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, attendants, cures, aid), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 described	nsubj
4	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 attendants	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 attendants	nmod:poss
9	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bird	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rushed	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 rushed	nsubj
12	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 attendants	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 call	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 call	nmod:poss
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 call	amod
16	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rushed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sought	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 vain	case
19	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sought	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sought	nsubj
21	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 described	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 creature	det
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 creature	amod
24	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sought	obj
25	both	both	ADV	_	21 sought	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 horse	case
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sought	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 foot	cc
29	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 horse	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 summoned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 summoned	cc
32	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sought	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fowlers	det
34	fowlers	fowler	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 summoned	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 aid	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 aid	nmod:poss
37	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 summoned	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 found	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 found	nsubj:pass
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 found	aux
42	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 found	advmod
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 found	aux:pass
44	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 aid	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	past	bird	the bird	vain	to bird's attendants	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to attendant=be'
2	rush	past	bird's attendants		bird's first call		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at call=Trajectory
3	seek	past	cures = cure	the wonderful creature	vain	on horse and foot; both property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent creature=Theme in vain=Location
4	summon	past	cures = cure not said here	the fowlers		to cures's aid	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowler=Recipient
5	find	could · passive	cures's aid not said here	the bird		nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
6	call		bird				nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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