The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 65
As an attempt hurts no one, he willingly consented that she should do what she could.
Who acts: King, Grannonia · What happens: hurt, consent, do · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Grannonia), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 attempt | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 attempt | det |
| 3 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurts | obl |
| 4 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurts | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 consented | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 consented | nsubj |
| 9 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 10 consented | advmod |
| 10 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurts | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 consented | ccomp |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present | no one | as a attempt | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | consent | past | King | willingly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | should | Grannonia | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/65/