The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 77
He tried on the coat, but it was too short, and he threw it off, and declared it was no use.
Who acts: maiden, coat · What happens: try, be, throw off, declare · To what, where: coat, use · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, coat), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 coat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coat | det |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 short | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 short | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 short | advmod |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 threw | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 declared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 declared | cc |
| 20 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 use | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 use | cop |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 use | det |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 declared | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | maiden | the coat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | coat | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw off | past | maiden | coat | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | maiden not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | coat | no use | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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