The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 46
These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.
Who acts: fairies · What happens: try, be, preach, succeed
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies), 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 | 2 fairies | det |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 try | nsubj |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 funny | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 funny | cop |
| 6 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 try | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fail | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fail | cc |
| 9 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 try | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 try | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 try | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 try | nsubj |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 preach | mark |
| 15 | preach | preach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 succeed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 succeed | cc |
| 18 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | this fairies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | this fairies not said here | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | present | fairies = fairy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | preach speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | fairies = fairy not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | succeed | infinitive | fairies = fairy not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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