The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 25

At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army.

Who acts: mother, brother · What happens: fail, manage, make, be, neighbour, declare · To what, where: everything, brother, king, war, some

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, brother), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 failed	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 failed	advmod
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 failed	nsubj:pass
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 everything	advmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 failed	aux
8	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 last	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 managed	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 managed	nsubj
11	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 failed	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 managed	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 king	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 king	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 king	cop
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brother	appos
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 country	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 country	det
22	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 country	amod
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 king	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 declare	punct
25	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
26	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declare	obj
27	against	against	ADP	_	29 emperor	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 emperor	det
29	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 declare	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 besiege	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 besiege	cc
32	besiege	besiege	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 besiege	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 towns	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 towns	det
36	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 towns	compound
37	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 some	nmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 army	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 army	det
40	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 army	amod
41	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 besiege	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fail	past · perfect · passive		everything		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	manage	past	mother			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother's brother		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product
4	is a	past	mother's brother	king	of the neighbouring country	tree rules
5	neighbour	gerund				tree rules
6	declare speech: other	infinitive	mother not said here	war	against the emperor	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute
7	besiege	infinitive	mother not said here	some	with a large army	tree rules

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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