The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
He racked his brains to remember, but he could not call to mind a single thing!
Who acts: King · What happens: rack, remember, not call, mind · To what, where: brains, single thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 racked | nsubj |
| 2 | racked | rack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brains | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 racked | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remember | mark |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 racked | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 call | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 call | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 call | advmod |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 racked | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mind | mark |
| 14 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 call | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mind | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 racked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rack | past | King | King's brains | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not call | could | King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mind | to-infinitive | King not said here | a single thing | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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