The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 64
In vain did Farda-Kinbras and Birbantine beg her to return, and endeavour by their humble apologies to pacify her; she never so much as looked at them, and was very soon out of sight, leaving them a prey to all kinds of dismal forebodings.
Who acts: Farda, sight, humble apologies · What happens: do, beg, return, pacify, look, be · To what, where: vain, Birbantine, sight, sparks
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 (Farda, sight, humble apologies), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | obl |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Farda | Farda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 beg | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Farda | punct |
| 6 | Kinbras | Kinbras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Farda | flat |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Birbantine | cc |
| 8 | Birbantine | Birbantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Farda | conj |
| 9 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beg | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beg | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 endeavour | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 endeavour | cc |
| 15 | endeavour | endeavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 apologies | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 apologies | nmod:poss |
| 18 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 apologies | amod |
| 19 | apologies | apology | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 endeavour | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pacify | mark |
| 21 | pacify | pacify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 endeavour | csubj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pacify | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 much | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 much | nsubj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 much | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 looked | mark |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 much | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 looked | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sight | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 sight | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 sight | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 soon | advmod |
| 36 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 sight | advmod |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 sight | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 sight | case |
| 39 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 leaving | punct |
| 41 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 sight | acl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 leaving | obj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 prey | det |
| 44 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 leaving | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 kinds | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 kinds | det |
| 47 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 leaving | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 forebodings | case |
| 49 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 forebodings | amod |
| 50 | forebodings | foreboding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 kinds | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vain | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | Farda and Birbantine | Birbantine | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | Farda and Birbantine not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pacify | to-infinitive | Birbantine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | look | participle | at sparks = spark | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | sight | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | leave | gerund | sight not said here | sparks = spark | to all kinds of dismal forebodings | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme prey=Attribute | |||
| 8 | endeavour | sparks's humble apologies | nom endeavour «act intransitive»: by=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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