The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 37
It was his last chance, so making a mighty effort he shrieked once more:
Who acts: tree, last chance, master · What happens: be, make, shriek · To what, where: last chance, mighty effort
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, last chance, master), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chance | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chance | amod |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 making | advmod |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 chance | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 effort | det |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 effort | amod |
| 11 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shrieked | nsubj |
| 13 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 effort | acl:relcl |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 shrieked | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 chance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | master's last chance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | master's last chance not said here | a mighty effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product | ||||
| 3 | shriek | past | master | a mighty effort not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location effort=Theme |
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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