The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 300

The King had given orders that they should seek high and low for the plum-seller, but in spite of all their pains, he was nowhere to be found.

Who acts: King, orchards · What happens: give, seek, find, spite, pain · To what, where: orders, King, spite, pains

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, orchards), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 given	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 seek	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seek	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 seek	aux
9	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	advcl
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seek	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 low	cc
12	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 high	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	17 seller	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 seller	det
15	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seller	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 plum	punct
17	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 low	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 spite	case
21	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 pains	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 pains	det:predet
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pains	nmod:poss
25	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spite	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spite	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux:pass
29	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 found	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	32 found	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 found	aux:pass
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 given	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	the King	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	seek	should	orchards = orchard			high property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past · passive		King	spite of orchards's pains	nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	spite			orchards's pains			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	pain		orchards = orchard				nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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