The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 52
The minister tried to argue the point with him, but at length the following agreement was come to.
Who acts: minister · What happens: try, argue, follow, come · To what, where: point, following agreement, length
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 argue | mark |
| 5 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 point | det |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 argue | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 argue | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 agreement | det |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 agreement | amod |
| 16 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux:pass |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tried | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the minister | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree not said to happen | to-infinitive | the minister not said here | the point | with minister | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent point=Topic with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come | past · passive | the following agreement | length | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 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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