The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 54
She tried to see if there was breath in him, but could not quite make it out.
Who acts: Princess, breath · What happens: try, see, be, not make out · To what, where: breath
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, breath), 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 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 breath | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 make | advmod |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 make | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Princess | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | breath in three | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not make out | could | Princess not said here | breath | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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