The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 84

The gnome tried hard by every means in his power to please the princess and win her love, but little did he guess the real reason of his lack of success.

Who acts: gnome, every, princess · What happens: try, mean, please, win, guess, love · To what, where: princess, love, real reason, success

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, every, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gnome	det
2	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 tried	advmod
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 means	mark
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 power	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 power	nmod:poss
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 please	mark
12	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 please	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 win	cc
16	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 please	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 love	nmod:poss
18	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 win	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guess	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 guess	cc
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 guess	ccomp
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 guess	aux
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 guess	nsubj
24	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reason	det
26	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reason	amod
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 guess	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 lack	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lack	nmod:poss
30	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reason	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 success	case
32	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lack	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	the gnome		hard property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	mean	present	every		in gnome's power	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in power=Attribute
3	please	to-infinitive	every not said here	the princess		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
4	win	infinitive	every not said here	princess's love		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality
5	guess	past · do-support	gnome	the real reason of gnome's lack of success		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
6	love		princess			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
7	lack		gnome	success		nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent of=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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