The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 40
Shrieking with rage, he tried to undo the cord, but he only pulled the knot tighter.
Who acts: sorry · What happens: shriek, try, undo, pull · To what, where: cord, knot
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorry), 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 | Shrieking | shriek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tried | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 rage | case |
| 3 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shrieking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shrieking | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 undo | mark |
| 8 | undo | undo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cord | det |
| 10 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 undo | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pulled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 pulled | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pulled | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 pulled | advmod |
| 15 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knot | det |
| 17 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pulled | obj |
| 18 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 pulled | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | gerund | sorry not said here | with rage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | sorry | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | undo not said to happen | to-infinitive | sorry not said here | the cord | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pull | past | sorry | the knot | tight property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=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 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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