The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 74

Mogarzea tried in vain to make him stay, but, finding it was useless, he told him all he knew, for he himself had never seen the lake.

Who acts: Mogarzea, Lake · What happens: try, make, stay, find, be, tell · To what, where: vain, Mogarzea, all, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mogarzea, Lake), 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	Mogarzea	Mogarzea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finding	punct
12	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 told	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 useless	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 useless	cop
15	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 finding	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finding	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 told	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 all	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seen	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 seen	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj:pass
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	25 he	nmod:unmarked
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 seen	advmod
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 told	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lake	det
31	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	Mogarzea			vain		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	to-infinitive	Mogarzea not said here	Mogarzea				tree rules
3	stay	infinitive	Mogarzea not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	gerund						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Lake				useless property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	Mogarzea	all	boy			tree rules
7	know	past	Mogarzea					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	not see	past · perfect · passive		Mogarzea				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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