The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 8
In vain did the poor old father weep and implore her pity; she was firm, and he dared not gainsay her.
Who acts: girl, frost · What happens: do, implore, be, gainsay, pity · To what, where: poor old father weep, pity, girl
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, frost), 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 | 16 firm | 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 | 8 weep | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weep | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weep | amod |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weep | compound |
| 8 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 implore | cc |
| 10 | implore | implore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 weep | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pity | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 implore | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 firm | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 firm | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 firm | cop |
| 16 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gainsay | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gainsay | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gainsay | nsubj |
| 20 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gainsay | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 dared | advmod |
| 22 | gainsay | gainsay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 firm | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gainsay | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 firm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | girl not said here | the poor old father weep | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weep=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | implore | infinitive | girl not said here | girl's pity | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | firm property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gainsay | past | frost | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pity | girl | nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=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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