The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 45

They sought for him far and near, but all in vain, and they were forced to recognise the power of the evil Fairy, against which the Queen had warned them on her death-bed.

Who acts: feet, Queen · What happens: seek, force, recognise, warn · To what, where: feet, power, death bed

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, Queen), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	obl
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sought	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 near	cc
7	near	near	ADV	_	5 far	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vain	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 vain	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 vain	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 vain	case
12	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sought	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forced	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forced	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forced	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forced	aux:pass
17	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sought	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 recognise	mark
19	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 forced	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 power	det
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 recognise	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Fairy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Fairy	det
24	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Fairy	amod
25	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 power	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 warned	punct
27	against	against	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 warned	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Queen	det
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 warned	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 warned	aux
32	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 forced	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 warned	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	38 bed	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 bed	nmod:poss
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bed	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 death	punct
38	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 warned	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past	feet = foot				for girth; far property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
2	force	past · passive		feet = foot				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	recognise	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here	the power of the evil Fairy				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
4	warn speech: warn	past · perfect	the Queen		feet = foot	Queen's death bed		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient against which=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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