The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 84

He hunted high and low, but there was no sign of her, and his despair was so great that he was ready, a thousand times over, to take his own life.

Who acts: spite, sign, despair · What happens: hunt, be, take, sign, despair · To what, where: own life, 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 (spite, sign, despair), 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 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hunted	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 low	cc
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 high	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hunted	parataxis
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 sign	det
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sign	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 great	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 great	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 despair	nmod:poss
17	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 great	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 great	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 great	advmod
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hunted	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 ready	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ready	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ready	cop
24	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 great	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 over	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thousand	det
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 over	obl:unmarked
29	over	over	ADV	_	2 hunted	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 take	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 hunted	parataxis
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 life	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 life	amod
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 take	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	spite			high, over property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	no sign of Rosalie		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	spite's despair			great property	tree rules
4	is	past	spite			ready property	tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive		spite's own life			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	sign			Rosalie			nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	despair		spite				nom despair «state intransitive»: 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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