The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 96

But she tried to put him off with other statues, though it was no good, and it was not until they had reached the last hall of all that he saw his brother lying on the ground.

Who acts: joy, strength, brother · What happens: try, put off, be, not be, see, lie · To what, where: brother, strength, ground

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, strength, brother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 tried	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 put	mark
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 statues	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 statues	amod
10	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 good	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 good	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 good	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tried	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reached	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 reached	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reached	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reached	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 reached	advmod
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 reached	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reached	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reached	aux
25	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 good	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hall	det
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hall	amod
28	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reached	obj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 saw	mark
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 saw	det:predet
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 saw	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 saw	nsubj
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hall	acl:relcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 brother	nmod:poss
35	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saw	obj
36	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 brother	acl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 ground	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ground	det
39	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lying	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	joy					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	put off not said to happen	to-infinitive	joy not said here		brother		with other statues	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
3	is	past	strength				good property	tree rules
4	not is	past · perfect · passive		strength			reach property	tree rules
5	see	past	brother	brother's brother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
6	lie	gerund	brother's brother not said here			the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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