The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 103
All his urgency, however, had no effect in making the prince withdraw.
Who acts: urgency, effect, prince, God · What happens: have, make, withdraw, urge · To what, where: effect, prince
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (urgency, effect, prince, God), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 urgency | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 urgency | nmod:poss |
| 3 | urgency | urgency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 urgency | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 effect | det |
| 9 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 making | mark |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 effect | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 making | obj |
| 14 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 making | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | God's urgency | no effect | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | no effect not said here | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | withdraw | present | the prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | urge | God | nom urgency «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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