The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 43
After trying a thousand schemes, I drew up two blind women.
Who acts: I · What happens: try, draw up · To what, where: thousand schemes, two blind women
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 trying | mark |
| 2 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drew | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thousand | det |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 schemes | nummod |
| 5 | schemes | scheme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trying | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trying | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 drew | compound:prt |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 women | nummod |
| 11 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 women | amod |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | I not said here | thousand schemes | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | draw up | past | I | two blind women | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
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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