The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 97
The sons were all in despair over this demand, but as they each wished to win the crown, they determined to do their best, and after a very few days set out on their travels again.
Who acts: sons · What happens: be, wish, win, determine, do, set out · To what, where: despair, crown, best
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sons | det |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 despair | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 despair | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 despair | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 despair | case |
| 6 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 demand | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 demand | det |
| 9 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despair | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 determined | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 determined | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 wished | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 determined | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 win | mark |
| 17 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wished | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crown | det |
| 19 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 win | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wished | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 determined | nsubj |
| 22 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 despair | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 determined | xcomp |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 best | nmod:poss |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 do | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 travels | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 travels | cc |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 days | det |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 few | advmod |
| 32 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 days | amod |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 travels | obl |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 travels | advcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 set | compound:prt |
| 36 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 38 travels | mark |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 travels | nmod:poss |
| 38 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 determined | conj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 travels | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sons | despair | over this demand; all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wish | past | sons = son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | the crown | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | determine | past | sons = son | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | sons's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | set out | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | travel | present | sons = son not said here | again; day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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