The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 9
There were plenty who tried to fulfil the terms which the king proposed.
Who acts: plenty, terms · What happens: be, try, fulfil, king, propose · To what, where: terms, king
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, terms), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plenty | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fulfil | mark |
| 7 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 terms | det |
| 9 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fulfil | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 king | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 terms | nmod |
| 13 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 king | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | plenty | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | plenty | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fulfil not said to happen | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | the terms | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | king | the terms | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | propose | participle | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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