The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 36

However, he soon perceived her melancholy, and in a thousand ways strove to dispel the cloud, but in vain.

Who acts: gnome · What happens: perceive, strive, dispel · To what, where: melancholy, thousand ways, cloud

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (gnome), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 perceived	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 perceived	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 perceived	advmod
5	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 melancholy	nmod:poss
7	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perceived	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strove	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strove	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 ways	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thousand	det
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 ways	nummod
13	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 strove	obl
14	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perceived	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 dispel	mark
16	dispel	dispel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 strove	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cloud	det
18	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dispel	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vain	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 vain	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 vain	case
22	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 perceived	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	gnome	princess's melancholy		however, soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer melancholy=Stimulus
2	strive	past	gnome not said here		thousand ways		tree rules
3	dispel	to-infinitive	gnome not said here	the cloud			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient

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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