The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 49
The children did all in their power, but they couldn’t get the beard out; it was wedged in far too firmly.
Who acts: children · What happens: do, not get out, wedge · To what, where: all, power, beard
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 power | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beard | det |
| 15 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 get | compound:prt |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 wedged | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wedged | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wedged | aux:pass |
| 20 | wedged | wedge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 far | case |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 wedged | obl |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 firmly | advmod |
| 24 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 20 wedged | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the children | all | children's power | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not get out | could | children = child | the beard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wedge | past · passive | beard | firmly property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in far=Trajectory |
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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