The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 111

So they ran; but what was their dismay when they found that the cradle was empty; and though they sought high and low, not a trace of Rosanella could they discover.

Who acts: courtiers, cradle · What happens: run, be, find, seek, discover · To what, where: dismay, trace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, cradle), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 dismay	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 dismay	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 dismay	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dismay	cop
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dismay	nmod:poss
9	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 found	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 empty	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cradle	det
15	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 empty	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 empty	cop
17	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 found	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sought	cc
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 sought	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sought	nsubj
22	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sought	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 low	cc
25	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 high	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trace	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 trace	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 trace	det
29	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sought	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Rosanella	case
31	Rosanella	Rosanella	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 discover	obl
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 discover	aux
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 discover	nsubj
34	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 trace	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	courtiers = courtier			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		courtiers's dismay		tree rules
3	find	past	courtiers = courtier			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the cradle		empty property	tree rules
5	seek	past	courtiers = courtier	a trace	high property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	discover	could	courtiers = courtier	a trace not said here	of Rosanella	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=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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