The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 78

‘Let me try,’ cried Biernuga, the bony fish, but he had no better luck, and no more had Kumbal, the bream, nor any of the rest.

Who acts: me, Biernuga, more · What happens: let, try, cry, have · To what, where: me, better luck, Kumbal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, Biernuga, more), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Biernuga	Biernuga	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fish	det
11	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fish	amod
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Biernuga	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 better	advmod
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 luck	amod
19	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 more	det
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
25	Kumbal	Kumbal	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bream	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bream	det
28	bream	bream	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Kumbal	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 any	punct
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 any	cc
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 had	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 rest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rest	det
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 any	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me	tree rules
2	try	infinitive	me not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	past	Biernuga		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	Biernuga	better luck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
5	have	past	no more	Kumbal	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kumbal=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 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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