The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 10
These two unlucky ventures did not prevent the princess from trying once more.
Who acts: two unlucky ventures · What happens: not prevent, try · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (two unlucky ventures), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 ventures | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ventures | nummod |
| 3 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ventures | amod |
| 4 | ventures | venture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prevent | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 prevent | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 prevent | advmod |
| 7 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prevent | obj |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 trying | mark |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 prevent | advcl |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 trying | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not prevent | past · do-support | this two unlucky ventures | the princess | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | this two unlucky ventures not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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