--- title: So he went and searched and searched for the other shoe for a long,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So he went and searched and searched for the other shoe for a long, long time, but no shoe was to be found, and at last he was forced to go back with the one which he had. Who acts: fellow. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/) / 45 # The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 45 So he went and searched and searched for the other shoe for a long, long time, but no shoe was to be found, and at last he was forced to go back with the one which he had. **Who acts:** fellow · **What happens:** go, search, find, force, go back, have · **To what, where:** shoe, fellow, last, one This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:9:45 # text = So he went and searched and searched for the other shoe for a long, long time, but no shoe was to be found, and at last he was forced to go back with the one which he had. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | fellow | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **search** | past | fellow *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **search** | past | fellow *not said here* | | | | time | for the other shoe | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for shoe=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past · passive | | no shoe | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **force** | past · passive | | fellow | | last | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go back** | to-infinitive | fellow *not said here* | | | | | with the one | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **have** | past | fellow | the one | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/46/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)