The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 32
They hunted for it high and low, but quite vainly.
Who acts: servants · What happens: hunt
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hunted | obl |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hunted | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 low | cc |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 high | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vainly | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 vainly | cc |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 vainly | advmod |
| 11 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 2 hunted | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | servants = servant | for castle; high, vainly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/32/