The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 58

When the Porcelain Maiden was tired of playing in the water she came out to dress herself, but, though she hunted for her clothes high and low, she could find them nowhere.

Who acts: Porcelain Maiden, Maiden · What happens: be, play, come out, dress, hunt, find · To what, where: water, Maiden, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcelain Maiden, Maiden), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 tired	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Maiden	det
3	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Maiden	compound
4	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tired	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 playing	mark
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tired	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 water	acl:relcl
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 dress	mark
16	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 dress	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 but	punct
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 hunted	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hunted	nsubj
23	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 find	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 clothes	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 clothes	nmod:poss
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 hunted	obl
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hunted	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 low	cc
29	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 high	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hunted	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 find	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tired	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 find	obj
35	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 find	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Porcelain Maiden			tired property	tree rules
2	play	gerund	the Porcelain Maiden not said here		the water		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come out	past	Maiden	the water not said here		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient water=Result
4	dress	to-infinitive	Maiden not said here	Maiden			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
5	hunt	past	Maiden			for Maiden's clothes; high property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for clothes=Theme
6	find	could	Maiden	clothes		nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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