The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 20
‘You are trying to soothe me by vain promises,’ answered the King.
Who acts: You, trying · What happens: try, soothe, answer · To what, where: me, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, trying), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trying | aux |
| 4 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | csubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 soothe | mark |
| 6 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trying | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 soothe | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 promises | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 promises | amod |
| 10 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 soothe | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · progressive | You | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | soothe not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | me | by vain promises | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | trying | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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