The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 89
In vain did his anxious followers seek for him, he was nowhere to be found.
Who acts: vain, anxious followers · What happens: do, seek, find · To what, where: stream
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vain, anxious followers), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 did | mark |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 followers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 followers | amod |
| 6 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seek | nsubj |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seek | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 found | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 found | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seek | present | stream's anxious followers | for stream | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | stream | nowhere property | 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 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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