The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 93
Ever so many people had tried to drive them away, but no one could manage it.
Who acts: many people, one · What happens: try, drive away, manage · To what, where: people, mouse
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many people, one), 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 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 many | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | aux |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drive | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 drive | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 manage | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 manage | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 manage | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 manage | aux |
| 16 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 manage | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect | many people | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drive away not said to happen | to-infinitive | many people not said here | people | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | manage | could | no one | mouse | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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