The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 22
The queen did all she could to persuade him to stay, but as her words proved useless, at length she gave it up.
Who acts: queen, death, words · What happens: do, persuade, stay, prove, give up, word · To what, where: all, death, length
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, death, words), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 could | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persuade | mark |
| 8 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 persuade | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 persuade | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 proved | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 proved | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 words | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 proved | nsubj |
| 17 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 18 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 proved | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 proved | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 gave | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the queen | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | death | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | death not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | prove | past | queen's words | useless property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give up | past | queen | length | length | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | |||
| 6 | word | queen | nom word «communication transitive»: 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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