More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 120
Many tried to destroy the Worm, but all had failed, and many a knight had lost his life in fighting with the monster, which slowly crushed the life out of all that came near it.
Who acts: Many · What happens: try, destroy, fail, lose, fight, crush · To what, where: Worm, all, many knight, monster
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many), 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 | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 destroy | mark |
| 4 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Worm | det |
| 6 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 destroy | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 failed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 failed | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 failed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 failed | aux |
| 11 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tried | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lost | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knight | amod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 knight | det |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 failed | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 fighting | mark |
| 22 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 lost | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 monster | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 monster | det |
| 25 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fighting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crushed | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 crushed | obj |
| 28 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 29 crushed | advmod |
| 29 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 monster | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 life | det |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crushed | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 all | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 all | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 crushed | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 all | acl:relcl |
| 37 | near | near | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 came | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Many | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Many not said here | the Worm | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fail | past · perfect · passive | all | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect · passive | a many knight | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fight | gerund | with the monster | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with monster=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | crush | past | the monster | all | slowly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer life=Result | |||
| 7 | come | past | near Worm | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location |
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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