The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 35

He might as well try to catch the wind.’

Who acts: Solomon · What happens: try, catch · To what, where: wind

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Solomon), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 try	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
3	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	5 try	cc
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 as	fixed
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 catch	mark
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	might	Solomon						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Solomon not said here	the wind					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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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