The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 57
It was in vain that they shrieked with pain and tried to free themselves.
Who acts: tree, fingers · What happens: be, shriek, try
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, fingers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vain | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vain | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 vain | case |
| 4 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 shrieked | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shrieked | nsubj |
| 7 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vain | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pain | case |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shrieked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tried | cc |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shrieked | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 free | mark |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 free | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tree | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shriek | past | fingers = finger | with pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | fingers = finger not said here | free property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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