The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 102
But the beast had been too greedy and too hurried, so he missed his aim the first time.
Who acts: beast, lot · What happens: be, hurry, miss, aim · To what, where: aim
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, lot), 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 | _ | 7 greedy | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beast | det |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greedy | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 greedy | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 greedy | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 greedy | advmod |
| 7 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurried | cc |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 hurried | advmod |
| 10 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 greedy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 missed | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 missed | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 missed | nsubj |
| 14 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 greedy | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 aim | nmod:poss |
| 16 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 missed | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 missed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 greedy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the beast | greedy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past | the beast not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | miss | past | lot | lot's aim | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aim=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | aim | lot | nom aim «cognition intransitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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