More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 14
Mr. Barrie himself could scarcely have succeeded better in a very difficult task.
What happens: succeed · To what, where: Barrie, difficult task
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Barrie | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Barrie | Barrie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Barrie | nmod |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeeded | aux |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 7 succeeded | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 succeeded | aux |
| 7 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 succeeded | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 task | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 task | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 difficult | advmod |
| 12 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 task | amod |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 succeeded | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | could · perfect · passive | Barrie Mr. Barrie | a difficult task | good, scarcely property | 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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