The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 180
And although I have passed through it hundreds of times in vain, I have never given up hope.
Who acts: I · What happens: pass, not give up · To what, where: hundreds, hope
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 passed | cc |
| 2 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 hundreds | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hundreds | nsubj |
| 8 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 times | case |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hundreds | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 vain | case |
| 12 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 given | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 given | advmod |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 given | compound:prt |
| 19 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · perfect | I | hundreds of times | in vain | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hundred=Location | |||
| 2 | not give up | present · perfect | I | hope | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source |
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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