The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 126

I have tried to teach them how to gain the gifts of the good spirits, but none of them would fast long enough, and at last I had to send them away to perform simple, easy little tasks.

Who acts: I · What happens: try, teach, gain, have, send away, perform · To what, where: gold, gifts, good spirits

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	aux
3	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 teach	mark
5	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 teach	iobj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gain	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 gain	mark
9	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 teach	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gifts	det
11	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gain	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 spirits	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spirits	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spirits	amod
15	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gifts	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 would	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 would	cc
18	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	21 would	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 none	nmod
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 would	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 would	advmod
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tasks	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tasks	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tasks	amod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 last	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 send	mark
32	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 send	obj
34	away	away	ADV	_	32 send	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 perform	mark
36	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 send	advcl
37	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 perform	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 last	punct
39	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tasks	amod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tasks	amod
41	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tried	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	present · perfect	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		gold		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	gain	to-infinitive	I not said here	the gifts of the good spirits			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
4	have	past	I				tree rules
5	send away	to-infinitive	I not said here	gold		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	perform	to-infinitive	I not said here			simple property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	gift			the good spirits			nom gift «possession transitive»: 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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