The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 109
But the men did not know how this was to be done, and, shaking their heads over his obstinacy, left him to his fate.
Who acts: men, man · What happens: not know, do, shake, leave, fate · To what, where: this, heads, obstinacy, man, fate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 done | advmod |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 done | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 know | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shaking | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaking | punct |
| 16 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 know | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heads | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shaking | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 obstinacy | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 obstinacy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | obstinacy | obstinacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shaking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shaking | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 left | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 fate | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fate | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the men not said here | muleteers's heads | man's obstinacy | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme over obstinacy=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | leave | past | the men not said here | man | man's fate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fate=Recipient | |||
| 5 | fate | man | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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