English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 4

They sought her east, they sought her west, They sought her up and down, And woe were the hearts of those brethren, For she was not to be found.

Who acts: brothers, woe · What happens: seek, seek up, be, not find · To what, where: east, Burd, hearts

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, woe), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 east	nmod:poss
4	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sought	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sought	nsubj
7	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sought	obj
9	west	west	ADV	_	7 sought	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sought	punct
11	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sought	nsubj
12	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sought	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 sought	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 down	cc
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 up	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hearts	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 hearts	cc
19	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hearts	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hearts	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hearts	det
22	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sought	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 brethren	case
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 brethren	det
25	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hearts	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct
27	For	for	SCONJ	_	33 found	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	aux:pass
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 found	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	33 found	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 found	aux:pass
33	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sought	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seek	past	brothers = brother	Burd's east		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=Theme
2	seek	past	brothers = brother	Burd	west property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	seek up	past	brothers = brother	Burd		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	is a	past	woe	the hearts	of that brethren	tree rules
5	not find	past · passive		Burd		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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