The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 91
But he blew in vain, for the poor soul was as dead as a door-nail.
Who acts: rogue, poor soul · What happens: blow, be · To what, where: vain
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogue, poor soul), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 blew | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dead | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soul | amod |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dead | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 dead | advmod |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blew | advcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 nail | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nail | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nail | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 door | punct |
| 18 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dead | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | rogue | vain | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the poor soul | as a door nail; dead property | tree rules |
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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