The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 52

But when Badi-al-Zaman reached the cottage and began eagerly to search in the dish for its head and its heart he could not find either of them, and turned to the Fowler’s wife in a furious rage.

Who acts: Badi · What happens: reach, begin, search, not find, turn · To what, where: cottage, dish, either, furious rage

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badi), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
3	Badi	Badi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reached	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 al	punct
5	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Badi	flat
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Zaman	punct
7	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Badi	flat
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cottage	det
10	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	12 began	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 search	mark
15	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dish	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dish	det
18	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 search	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dish	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 heart	cc
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heart	nmod:poss
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 head	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 find	advmod
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dish	acl:relcl
29	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	28 find	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 either	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turned	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 turned	cc
34	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	39 wife	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Fowler	det
37	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wife	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Fowler	case
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 rage	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rage	det
42	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rage	amod
43	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turned	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Badi	the cottage			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
2	begin	past				eagerly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	search	to-infinitive			the dish for dish's head and head's heart		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dish=Location
4	not find	could	Badi	either			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Topic
5	turn	past			a furious rage	to the Fowler's wife	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to wife=Source in rage=Trajectory

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/52/