The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 9

All the neighbouring kings had offered rich rewards to anyone who should be able to destroy the monster, either by force or enchantment, and many had tried their luck, but all had miserably failed.

What happens: offer, be, destroy, try, fail · To what, where: neighbouring kings, monster, many, all

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: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kings	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kings	det
3	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kings	compound
4	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 offered	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 offered	aux
6	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rewards	amod
8	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 offered	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 rewards	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 able	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 able	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 able	cop
14	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anyone	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 destroy	mark
16	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 able	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monster	det
18	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 destroy	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 force	punct
20	either	either	CCONJ	_	22 force	cc:preconj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 force	case
22	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rewards	conj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 enchantment	cc
24	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 force	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tried	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tried	cc
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tried	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tried	aux
29	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 offered	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 luck	nmod:poss
31	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tried	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 failed	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 failed	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 failed	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 failed	aux
36	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	37 failed	advmod
37	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 offered	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	offer	past · perfect · passive	all neighbouring kings		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal reward=Theme
2	is	should		able property	tree rules
3	destroy	to-infinitive	the monster		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient
4	try	past · perfect · passive	many		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer luck=Result
5	fail	past · perfect · passive	all	miserably property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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