The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 5
In vain the Prince rushed to their assistance and strove to undo the cord.
Who acts: men · What happens: rush, strive, undo, assist · To what, where: cord
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Prince | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obl |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 assistance | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 strove | cc |
| 10 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rushed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 undo | mark |
| 12 | undo | undo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 strove | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cord | det |
| 14 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 undo | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | in the vain Prince; to men's assistance result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to assistance=Result | |||||
| 2 | strive | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | undo | to-infinitive | the cord | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient | |||||
| 4 | assist | men = man | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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