More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 79

In vain were the giant's roars and prayers and promises to yield himself and be Tom's servant.

What happens: be, yield · To what, where: vain roars, Tom, servant

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 roars	amod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 roars	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roars	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	roars	roar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prayers	cc
9	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roars	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promises	cc
11	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roars	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 yield	mark
13	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promises	acl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 yield	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 servant	cc
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 servant	cop
17	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 servant	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Tom	case
19	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yield	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 roars	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the giant's vain roars and prayers and promises	tree rules
2	yield	to-infinitive	Tom	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	is a	infinitive	Tom's servant	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: «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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