The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 47

The jogi tried to follow, but he was no match for her; so, beside himself with rage at finding that he could not overtake her, he flung at her a lance, which wounded her in the leg.

Who acts: jogi, rajah, rage, lance · What happens: try, follow, be, find, not overtake, fling · To what, where: match, princess, lance, leg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jogi, rajah, rage, lance), 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	2 jogi	det
2	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 follow	mark
5	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 match	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 match	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 match	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 match	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 match	det
11	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 match	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 himself	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 himself	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 himself	punct
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 tried	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 rage	case
20	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 himself	nmod
21	at	at	SCONJ	_	22 finding	mark
22	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 rage	acl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 overtake	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 overtake	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 overtake	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 overtake	advmod
27	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 finding	ccomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 overtake	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flung	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	nsubj
31	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	obl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 lance	det
35	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wounded	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 wounded	nsubj
38	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 lance	acl:relcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wounded	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 leg	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 leg	det
42	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wounded	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the jogi			beside rajah	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the jogi not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	rajah	no match		for princess	tree rules
4	find	gerund	rage not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not overtake	could	rajah	princess			tree rules
6	fling	past	rajah	a lance		at princess	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lance=Theme at she=Destination
7	wound	past	a lance	princess	the leg		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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