The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 108

Our reason tries in vain to show them to us; we refuse to see them till we find them in the way of our interests.”

Who acts: we, Our · What happens: show, refuse, not see, find, try, interest · To what, where: tries, us, way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Our), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tries	nmod:poss
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tries	compound
3	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vain	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 vain	case
5	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 vain	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 show	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 show	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 refuse	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 refuse	nsubj
13	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 vain	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 refuse	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 find	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
19	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 refuse	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 interests	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 interests	nmod:poss
26	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 way	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 refuse	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		tries = try	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to we=Recipient
2	refuse	present	we				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not see	to-infinitive	we not said here	tries = try			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	find	present	we	tries = try		the way of our interests	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	try		Our				nom try «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	interest		our				nom interest «cognition 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 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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