The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 8

She threw a lot of gold nuts into the pond, hoping in this way to catch the duck, but all her efforts were fruitless, for the little creature refused to let itself be caught.

Who acts: woman, efforts, little creature, creature · What happens: throw, hope, catch, be, refuse, not let · To what, where: lot, pond, way, duck, creature

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, efforts, little creature, creature), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 nuts	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nuts	compound
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lot	nmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hoping	punct
12	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 threw	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hoping	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 catch	mark
17	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hoping	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 duck	det
19	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 catch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fruitless	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 fruitless	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 efforts	det
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 efforts	nmod:poss
24	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fruitless	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fruitless	cop
26	fruitless	fruitless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 refused	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 refused	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 creature	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 creature	amod
31	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 refused	nsubj
32	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 let	mark
34	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 refused	xcomp
35	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 let	obj
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 caught	aux:pass
37	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 let	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	woman	a lot of gold nuts		into the pond result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer lot=Theme into pond=Result
2	hope	gerund	woman not said here		this way		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	catch	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the duck			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme
4	is	past	woman's efforts			fruitless property	tree rules
5	refuse	past	the little creature				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not let	to-infinitive	the little creature not said here	creature			tree rules
7	catch	infinitive · passive	creature not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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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