The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 168
She thought and thought, and tried in vain to climb up to the door.
Who acts: door · What happens: think, try, climb up · To what, where: vain, door
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tried | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 climb | mark |
| 11 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 climb | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 climb | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | door | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | door not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | try | past | door not said here | vain | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | climb up not said to happen | to-infinitive | door not said here | the door | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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