The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 77
In vain the master prayed and threatened, and promised Hans a large reward if he would only drive him on.
Who acts: master · What happens: pray, threaten, promise, drive on · To what, where: vain, large reward, Hans
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 (master), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prayed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prayed | nsubj |
| 5 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 threatened | cc |
| 7 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prayed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prayed | conj |
| 11 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 promised | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 reward | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reward | amod |
| 14 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 promised | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 drive | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drive | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 drive | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 drive | advmod |
| 19 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drive | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 drive | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | the master | vain | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | threaten | past | the master not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the master not said here | a large reward | Hans | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent han=Goal reward=Theme | |||
| 4 | drive on a condition, not said to happen | would | master | Hans | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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