The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 12

He searched all about to see who could have done this, but could find no one.

Who acts: husband · What happens: search, see, do, find · To what, where: this, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 about	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	2 searched	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 searched	advcl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 done	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 see	ccomp
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 done	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 searched	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	search	past	husband		about property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	see	to-infinitive	husband not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	could · perfect		this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
4	find	could	husband not said here	no one		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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