The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 6
Many knights had come from afar to try their luck, but it was in vain they attempted to climb the mountain.
Who acts: luck, knights · What happens: come, try, be, attempt, climb · To what, where: Many knights, luck, mountain
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck, knights), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knights | amod |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 afar | case |
| 6 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 come | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 afar | csubj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 luck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 try | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vain | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 vain | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 vain | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 vain | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 come | advcl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 attempted | nsubj |
| 18 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 vain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 climb | mark |
| 20 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 attempted | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mountain | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 climb | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect · passive | Many knights | afar property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | knights's luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | past | luck | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | attempt | past | knights = knight | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | climb not said to happen | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=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 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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