The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 7
Many young men sought to discover her, but all perished in the attempt.
Who acts: Many young men · What happens: seek, discover, perish · To what, where: daughter, all, attempt
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many young men), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 discover | mark |
| 6 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sought | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 discover | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perished | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 perished | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sought | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 attempt | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 attempt | det |
| 14 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perished | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Many young men | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | discover not said to happen | to-infinitive | Many young men not said here | daughter | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | perish | participle · passive | all | the attempt | 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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