The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 43

But cast with what skill he might, it availed nothing, for the salmon would not even look at the bait.

Who acts: you, skill, salmon · What happens: cast, avail, not look · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, skill, salmon), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 cast	cc
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 skill	case
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 skill	nsubj
5	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 might	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 skill	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 availed	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 availed	nsubj
10	availed	avail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cast	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 availed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 look	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 salmon	det
15	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 look	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 look	advmod
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cast	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 bait	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bait	det
22	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cast	imperative	you not said here		with skill	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	avail	past	skill	nothing		tree rules
3	not look	would	the salmon		at the bait	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bait=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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