The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 117
He fell asleep fully determined to give up trying to be great, but to lead the life of an honest workman.
Who acts: master · What happens: fall, give up, try, be, lead · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 determined | amod |
| 4 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 5 determined | advmod |
| 5 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 give | compound:prt |
| 9 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 give | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 great | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 great | cop |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trying | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lead | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 lead | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lead | mark |
| 16 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fell | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 life | det |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lead | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 workman | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 workman | det |
| 21 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 workman | amod |
| 22 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 life | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | master | determined property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up | to-infinitive | master not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | master not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | master not said here | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lead | to-infinitive | master not said here | the life of a honest workman | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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