Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 15

Look around as he might, indoors and out, he could find no creature with two legs or four, for his horse was gone.

Who acts: you, Andrew, horse · What happens: look around, find, be · To what, where: creature

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Andrew, horse), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 might	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 might	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 indoors	punct
7	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 out	cc
9	out	out	ADV	_	7 indoors	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 creature	det
15	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 legs	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 legs	nummod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 creature	nmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 four	cc
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 legs	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 gone	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 horse	nmod:poss
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
26	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 find	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look around	imperative	you not said here		around, indoors property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	find	could	Andrew	no creature	with two legs	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Topic
3	is	past	Andrew's horse		gone property	tree rules

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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