The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 16

The fairy, in a rage, tried to snatch it from her, but the princess would not let it go.

Who acts: fairy, princess · What happens: try, snatch, not let, go · To what, where: fairy

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, princess), 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 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rage	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 rage	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rage	det
6	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fairy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fairy	punct
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 snatch	mark
10	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snatch	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snatch	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 let	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 let	advmod
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	the fairy and a rage			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	snatch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fairy and a rage not said here	fairy	from Grimace	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from she=Source
3	not let	would	the princess	fairy		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	fairy not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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