The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 73
In vain did the poor beast try to free itself; then the good-natured Prince came once more to the rescue, and let the fox out of the trap.
Who acts: you, natured Prince · What happens: do, come, let · To what, where: poor beast try, more, fox, trap
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, natured Prince), 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 | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 let | advcl |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 vain | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 try | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 try | amod |
| 6 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | compound |
| 7 | try | try | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 free | mark |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 try | amod |
| 10 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 free | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 came | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 natured | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 16 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Prince | amod |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 let | advcl |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 came | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 rescue | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rescue | det |
| 23 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 let | cc |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fox | det |
| 28 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 let | obj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 trap | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 trap | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 trap | det |
| 32 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 let | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | you not said here | the poor beast try | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the natured Prince | more | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | imperative | you not said here | the fox | the trap | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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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