The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 34

He sought it for eight days, and on the ninth early in the morning he found the blood-red flower.

Who acts: Joringel · What happens: seek, find · To what, where: flower, blood red flower, ninth

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ninth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ninth	det
11	ninth	ninth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obl
12	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 morning	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ninth	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flower	det
19	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flower	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 blood	punct
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flower	amod
22	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	Joringel	flower			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	find	past	Joringel	the blood red flower		the ninth in the morning			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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