The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 51

And that he had sought it far and long, and in all the earth there was no man more unhappy.

Who acts: son, man · What happens: seek, be · To what, where: furniture, earth

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 (son, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 sought	cc
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 sought	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sought	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sought	aux
5	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sought	obj
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sought	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 long	cc
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 far	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unhappy	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unhappy	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 earth	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 earth	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unhappy	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 unhappy	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unhappy	nsubj
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 unhappy	advmod
21	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sought	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past · perfect	son	furniture				far property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	past	no man			all earth		unhappy property	tree rules

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.

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