The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 64

He had tried to learn magic himself, but somehow or other his spells would never work, and he was furious to hear that the prince claimed a power that he did not possess.

Who acts: king, spells, prince · What happens: try, learn, not work, be, hear, claim · To what, where: magic, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, spells, prince), 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	3 tried	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	aux
3	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 learn	mark
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	6 magic	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 somehow	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 somehow	cc
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 somehow	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 spells	nmod:poss
14	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 work	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 work	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 work	advmod
17	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 somehow	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 furious	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 furious	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 furious	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 furious	cop
22	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hear	mark
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 furious	csubj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 claimed	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prince	det
27	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 claimed	nsubj
28	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 power	det
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 claimed	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 possess	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 possess	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 possess	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 possess	advmod
35	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 claimed	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect	king		somehow property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	magic king		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Topic
3	not work	would	king's spells			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	king		furious property	tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	claim speech: other	past	the prince	a power		tree rules
7	not possess	past · do-support	king			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
8	spell		king			nom spell «state 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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