More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 122
Many a one tried to get it on that she might be the prince's bride.
Who acts: lady · What happens: try, get, be · To what, where: shoe
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Many | nmod |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 one | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bride | case |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 on | fixed |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bride | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bride | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bride | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bride | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | participle | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | shoe | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | might | lady | on the prince's bride | 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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