The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 19

However, it was no use standing there staring at the fir, at least he must try to do his best, and try he did till his hands and knees were sore, for as soon as he had struggled up a few feet, he slid back again.

Who acts: sailor, use, sun · What happens: be, stand, stare, try, do, struggle up · To what, where: use, least, best, few feet

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailor, use, sun), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 use	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 use	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 standing	advmod
9	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 standing	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 fir	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fir	det
12	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 staring	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 least	case
15	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 try	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 try	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 try	aux
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 staring	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 try	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 best	nmod:poss
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 do	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 try	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 try	cc
25	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 try	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 try	ccomp
28	till	till	ADP	_	30 hands	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sore	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knees	cc
32	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hands	conj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sore	cop
34	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 did	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 struggled	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 struggled	mark
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 soon	advmod
38	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 struggled	advmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 struggled	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 struggled	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 struggled	aux
42	struggled	struggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 try	parataxis
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 struggled	compound:prt
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 feet	det
45	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 feet	amod
46	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 struggled	obl:unmarked
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 slid	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 slid	nsubj
49	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 struggled	conj
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 slid	advmod
51	again	again	ADV	_	49 slid	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sailor	no use			however property	tree rules
2	stand	gerund	no use not said here		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stare	gerund	no use not said here				at the fir	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at fir=Theme
4	try	must	sun		least			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	sun not said here	sun's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
6	try	infinitive						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	do	past	sun					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	sun not said here			till sun's hands and knees	sore property	tree rules
9	struggle up	past · perfect	sun	a few feet			soon property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	slide back	past	sun			again		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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