The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 75
‘Nothing to prevent me!’ repeated he, ‘when my utmost efforts have failed to discover the lovely original.
Who acts: Nothing, utmost efforts · What happens: prevent, repeat, fail, not discover · To what, where: me, Featherhead, lovely original
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 (Nothing, utmost efforts), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 prevent | mark |
| 4 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Nothing | acl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 prevent | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 repeated | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 failed | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 failed | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 failed | advmod |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 efforts | amod |
| 15 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 failed | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 failed | aux |
| 17 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 repeated | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 discover | mark |
| 19 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 failed | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 original | det |
| 21 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 original | amod |
| 22 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 discover | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | Nothing | Featherhead | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fail | present · perfect | my utmost efforts | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not discover | to-infinitive | my utmost efforts not said here | the lovely original | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent original=Topic |
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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