The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 28
The following year Warza, the second brother, tried his luck, but with the same result.
What happens: follow, try · To what, where: luck
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 year | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Warza | Warza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 year | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brother | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Warza | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 luck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 result | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 result | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 result | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 result | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 result | amod |
| 18 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tried | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | try | past | Szabo's luck | year | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
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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