The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 70
He tried to reason with her, but she would not listen.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: try, not listen
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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 | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 reason | case |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reason | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 listen | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 listen | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 listen | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 listen | advmod |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | husband | to reason with wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not listen | would | wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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