Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 62
They tried every means to restore Clara to life, but it was all of no avail.
Who acts: fishermen, every · What happens: try, mean, restore · To what, where: Clara, life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen, every), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 restore | mark |
| 6 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | xcomp |
| 7 | Clara | Clara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 restore | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 restore | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 all | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 all | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | cop |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 means | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 avail | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 avail | det |
| 17 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 all | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | fishermen = fisherman | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | every | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | restore not said to happen | to-infinitive | every not said here | Clara | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent clara=Theme to life=Recipient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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