The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 54

Then as a last resource she exerted all her wit and gaiety to amuse him, but with no better success, for he was of an age to be more attracted by beauty than by anything else, and though he responded politely enough, it was evident that his thoughts were elsewhere.

Who acts: Princess, Featherhead, beauty, wit, thoughts · What happens: exert, amuse, be, attract, respond, think · To what, where: wit, Featherhead

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Featherhead, beauty, wit), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 exerted	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 resource	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 resource	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resource	amod
5	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exerted	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 exerted	nsubj
7	exerted	exert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 wit	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wit	nmod:poss
10	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exerted	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gaiety	cc
12	gaiety	gaiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wit	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 amuse	mark
14	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gaiety	acl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 amuse	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 success	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 success	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 success	case
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 success	det
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 success	amod
21	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exerted	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 age	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	28 age	case
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 age	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 age	cop
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 age	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 age	det
28	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exerted	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	32 attracted	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 attracted	aux:pass
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 attracted	advmod
32	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 age	advcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 beauty	case
34	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 attracted	obl
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 anything	case
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 anything	case
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 beauty	nmod
38	else	else	ADV	_	37 anything	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 responded	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 responded	cc
41	though	though	SCONJ	_	43 responded	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 responded	nsubj
43	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exerted	conj
44	politely	politely	ADV	_	43 responded	advmod
45	enough	enough	ADV	_	43 responded	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 evident	punct
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 evident	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 evident	cop
49	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exerted	parataxis
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 elsewhere	mark
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 thoughts	nmod:poss
52	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 elsewhere	nsubj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 elsewhere	cop
54	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	49 evident	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exerted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	exert	past	Princess	Princess's wit and gaiety	then	as a last resource; with no better success	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Theme
2	amuse	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Featherhead			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	is	past	Featherhead		for a age		tree rules
4	attract	to-infinitive · passive	beauty than anything				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	respond speech: other	past	Featherhead			enough, politely property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	wit			evident property	tree rules
7	is	past	Featherhead's thoughts			elsewhere property	tree rules
8	think		Featherhead				nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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