The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 80

Cinderlad tried, but could not do it; so he had to take a draught from the pitcher, and then one more, and after that still another, and then he was able to wield the sword with perfect ease.

Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: try, not do, have, take, be, wield · To what, where: one more, door, draught, pitcher, sword

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad), 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	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 draught	det
16	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 pitcher	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pitcher	det
19	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 more	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 more	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 more	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 more	nummod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 tried	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 another	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 another	cc
27	after	after	ADP	_	30 another	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 another	nsubj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 another	advmod
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 tried	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 able	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 able	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 able	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 able	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 able	cop
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 another	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 wield	mark
38	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sword	det
40	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wield	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 ease	case
42	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ease	amod
43	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wield	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Cinderlad	one more				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
2	not do	could	Cinderlad not said here	door				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	have	past	Cinderlad					tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	Cinderlad not said here	a draught	the pitcher			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent draught=Theme from pitcher=Initial_Location
5	is	past	Cinderlad			then	able property	tree rules
6	wield	to-infinitive	Cinderlad not said here	the sword			with perfect ease	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

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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