The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 50
But it was in vain that he implored her to listen; she only shook her head.
Who acts: joy, fourth, Rosalie · What happens: be, implore, listen, shake · To what, where: Rosalie, head
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 (joy, fourth, Rosalie), 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 | _ | 5 vain | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 vain | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vain | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 implored | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 implored | nsubj |
| 8 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vain | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 implored | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 listen | mark |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 implored | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 shook | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shook | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 shook | advmod |
| 15 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vain | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shook | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | joy | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | implore | past | fourth | Rosalie | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | fourth not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shake | past | Rosalie | Rosalie's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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