Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 38
The servants rummaged well, and did not find a thing.
Who acts: servants · What happens: rummage, not find · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rummaged | nsubj |
| 3 | rummaged | rummage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rummaged | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 find | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rummaged | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rummaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rummage | participle | the servants | well property | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not find | past · do-support | the servants not said here | a thing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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: «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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