More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 12

_--I have endeavoured to show, _l.c.

Who acts: I · What happens: endeavour, show · To what, where: l.c

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 endeavoured	punct
2	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 endeavoured	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 endeavoured	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 endeavoured	aux
5	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 endeavoured	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 l.c	punct
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 l.c	punct
10	l.c	l.c	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 endeavoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endeavour	present · perfect	I						tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	I not said here	l.c					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent l.c=Recipient

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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