The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 105

Full of astonishment, the stag would redouble his efforts, but it was no use.

Who acts: stag, astonishment · What happens: redouble, be · To what, where: efforts, use

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, astonishment), 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	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 astonishment	case
3	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Full	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 redouble	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stag	det
6	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 redouble	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 redouble	aux
8	redouble	redouble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Full	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 efforts	nmod:poss
10	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 redouble	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 use	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 use	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 use	det
16	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 redouble	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	redouble	would	the stag	stag's efforts					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent effort=Patient
2	is a	past	astonishment	no use					tree rules

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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