Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 221

There was yet another way in which Mignon tried to please Wilhelm, and make him forget his cares.

Who acts: way, Mignon, Wilhelm · What happens: be, try, please, make, forget, care · To what, where: way, Wilhelm, cares

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Mignon, Wilhelm), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tried	obl
8	Mignon	Mignon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 please	mark
11	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 please	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 make	cc
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 please	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cares	nmod:poss
19	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 forget	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	another way		there	yet	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	Mignon		another way		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	please not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mignon not said here	Wilhelm			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wilhelm=Experiencer
4	make	infinitive	Mignon not said here	Wilhelm			tree rules
5	forget	infinitive	Wilhelm not said here	Wilhelm's cares			tree rules
6	care		Wilhelm				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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