More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 54

Try as he might James could not get his glass filled, and there was slashing and spilling, and right on it all, down came the master to know what it meant!

Who acts: you, James, glass, master · What happens: try, not get, fill, slash, spill, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, James, glass, master), 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	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 get	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
5	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Try	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 glass	nmod:poss
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 filled	nsubj
11	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slashing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slashing	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 slashing	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 slashing	aux
16	slashing	slash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Try	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spilling	cc
18	spilling	spill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 slashing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 right	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 right	cc
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 slashing	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 right	obl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 it	det
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
26	down	down	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 master	det
29	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 know	mark
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 master	acl
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 meant	obj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 meant	nsubj
34	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 know	ccomp
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not get	could	James			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fill	past	James's glass			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	slash	past · progressive		there		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	spill	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	the master		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	know	to-infinitive	the master not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	mean	past	master			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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