The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 46

He thought only of the Princess and where he should find her, but in vain he opened every door and searched in every corner; he neither saw Rosalie nor anyone else.

Who acts: gate · What happens: think, find, open, search, see · To what, where: Princess, door, vain, corner, Rosalie

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 Princess	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 find	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Princess	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 opened	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 vain	case
16	vain	vain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 searched	cc
22	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 opened	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 corner	det
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 searched	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
28	neither	neither	ADV	_	29 saw	advmod
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
30	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obj
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 anyone	cc
32	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 saw	conj
33	else	else	ADV	_	32 anyone	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	gate				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	should	gate	Princess			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	open	past	gate	every door	vain		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in vain=Location
4	search	participle	gate not said here		every corner		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
5	see	past	gate	Rosalie		neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rosalie=Stimulus

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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