The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 137
Out of pure compassion we tried to persuade them to give up this folly; but they only replied with the utmost insolence.'
Who acts: we, linnets · What happens: try, persuade, give up, reply · To what, where: pure compassion, linnets, folly
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, linnets), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 compassion | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 compassion | case |
| 3 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 compassion | amod |
| 4 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persuade | mark |
| 8 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 persuade | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 persuade | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 give | compound:prt |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 folly | det |
| 14 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 replied | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 replied | advmod |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 insolence | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 insolence | det |
| 22 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 insolence | amod |
| 23 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 replied | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | we | pure compassion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | linnets = linnet | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | give up | to-infinitive | linnets = linnet not said here | this folly | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=Source | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | linnets = linnet | with the utmost insolence | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with insolence=Eventuality |
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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