The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 49

‘You see how they toil,’ said the Fairy; ‘but it is all of no avail: they will end by dying of despair, as hundreds have done before them.’

Who acts: You, faces · What happens: see, toil, say, end, die, do · To what, where: Fairy, hundreds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, faces), 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	_	3 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 toil	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 toil	nsubj
6	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fairy	det
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 all	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 all	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 all	cop
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 said	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 avail	case
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 avail	det
20	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 all	nmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 end	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 end	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 end	aux
24	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 dying	mark
26	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 end	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 despair	case
28	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dying	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 done	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 done	mark
31	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 done	nsubj:pass
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 end	parataxis
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 done	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 end	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	toil		faces = face				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		the Fairy			tree rules
4	end	future	faces = face				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	die	gerund	faces = face not said here			of despair	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of despair=Causer
6	do	present · perfect · passive		hundreds	before faces = face		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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