The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 79
The Wicked Queen knowing this made every attempt to get the Prince out of the country, but her efforts failed, till one day accident did what she was unable to accomplish.
Who acts: Wicked Queen, this, day accident · What happens: know, make, attempt, get, fail, do · To what, where: Prince, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wicked Queen, this, day accident), 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 | 3 Queen | det |
| 2 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Queen | amod |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Queen | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 attempt | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 attempt | amod |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 attempt | det |
| 8 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knowing | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 attempt | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 failed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 failed | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 failed | nsubj |
| 21 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 did | mark |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 day | nummod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 accident | compound |
| 26 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 failed | conj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 unable | nsubj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 unable | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 unable | cop |
| 31 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 did | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 accomplish | mark |
| 33 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 unable | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the Wicked Queen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | attempt | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the Wicked Queen not said here | the Prince | the country | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | fail | past | the Wicked Queen | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | past | day accident | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | unable property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | accomplish | to-infinitive | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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