The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 58
They could do nothing, and the young man remained cold as marble to all their entreaties.
Who acts: fingers, young man · What happens: do, remain · To what, where: nothing
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 (fingers, young man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remained | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remained | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remained | nsubj |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | conj |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remained | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 marble | case |
| 13 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remained | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 entreaties | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 entreaties | det:predet |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 17 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remained | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | fingers = finger | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | the young man | as marble; to fingers's entreaties; cold property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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