The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 119

It was no use to try force, he must invent some cunning plan which would get her into his power.

Who acts: bear, Wolverine, cunning plan · What happens: be, try, invent, get · To what, where: use, force, cunning plan, food, power

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, Wolverine, cunning plan), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 use	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 use	det
4	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 try	mark
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	acl
7	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 invent	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 invent	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 invent	aux
11	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	parataxis
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 plan	det
13	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	compound
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invent	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 get	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 plan	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 power	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 power	nmod:poss
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	bear	no use		tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive		force		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Eventuality
3	invent	must	Wolverine	some cunning plan		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
4	get	would	some cunning plan	food	Wolverine's power	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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