The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 28

The youth denied that he had said this, but all to no purpose, for the King was deaf to all his words; so there was nothing to be done but say that he would make the attempt.

Who acts: youth, all, nothing, King · What happens: deny, say, be, do, make, word · To what, where: this, attempt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, all, nothing, King), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denied	nsubj
3	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 denied	ccomp
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 deaf	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 deaf	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 deaf	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 purpose	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 purpose	det
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 all	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 King	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 all	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 deaf	cop
20	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 denied	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 words	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 words	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 words	nmod:poss
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 deaf	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 was	advmod
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 denied	parataxis
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 was	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 done	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 done	aux:pass
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 nothing	acl
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 say	cc
34	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 done	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 make	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 say	ccomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 attempt	det
40	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 denied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	deny	past	the youth				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	youth	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
3	is	past	all			to King's words; deaf property	tree rules
4	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»
6	say speech: assert	present	nothing not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	make	would	King	the attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product
8	word		King				nom word «communication 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 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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