The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 48
The young man did not try to escape, he knew it was useless, and sank on his knees and closed his eyes.
Who acts: young man, man, power · What happens: not try, escape, know, be, sink, close · To what, where: knees, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, power), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 try | advmod |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 escape | mark |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 useless | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 useless | cop |
| 14 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sank | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sank | cc |
| 17 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knew | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 knees | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knees | nmod:poss |
| 20 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sank | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 closed | cc |
| 22 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knew | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 closed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | past · do-support | the young man | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | power | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sink | past | man not said here | man's knees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | close | past | man not said here | man's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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