Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 39

He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain.

Who acts: Fox, efforts · What happens: try, think, reach, be · To what, where: everything, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, efforts), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 tried	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 everything	acl:relcl
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 reach	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 vain	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 vain	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 efforts	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 efforts	nmod:poss
16	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 vain	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 vain	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 vain	case
19	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	Fox	everything		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	could	Fox			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	reach	to-infinitive		the water		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	is	past	Fox's efforts		vain 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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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