The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 99
She struggled hard to tear the net asunder, but it was no use.
Who acts: Groac’h, asunder · What happens: struggle, tear, be · To what, where: net asunder, use
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Groac’h, asunder), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struggled | nsubj |
| 2 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 struggled | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tear | mark |
| 5 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 asunder | det |
| 7 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asunder | compound |
| 8 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tear | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 use | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 use | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 use | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 use | det |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struggled | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | Groac’h = groac'h | hard property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tear | to-infinitive | Groac’h = groac'h not said here | the net asunder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location asunder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | asunder | no use | tree rules |
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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