The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 111

What a great trying on there was now among them all!

What happens: try, be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	1 What	appos
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 a	amod
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 great	advcl
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 them	cop
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 was	advmod
9	among	among	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past						among people; all nmod:unmarked	tree rules

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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