The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 9

After everyone had tried and failed a servant entered and informed the queen that a strange old man had just knocked at the palace gate and declared that he was able to heal the dying youth.

Who acts: servant, man · What happens: try, fail, enter, inform, knock, declare · To what, where: queen, strange old man, palace gate, dying youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, man), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 everyone	case
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 tried	obl
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	aux
4	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 failed	cc
6	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 servant	det
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	nsubj
9	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 failed	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 informed	cc
11	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 failed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 queen	det
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 informed	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 knocked	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knocked	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knocked	aux
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 knocked	advmod
21	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 informed	ccomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 gate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gate	det
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gate	compound
25	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knocked	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 declared	cc
27	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knocked	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 able	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 able	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 able	cop
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 declared	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 heal	mark
33	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 youth	det
35	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 youth	amod
36	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heal	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · perfect				after everyone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	fail	past						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	enter	past	a servant					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	inform speech: other	past		the queen				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic
5	knock	past · perfect · passive		a strange old man	the palace gate			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme at gate=Destination
6	declare speech: other	past						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	man				able property	tree rules
8	heal	to-infinitive	man not said here	the dying youth				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=Patient
9	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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