The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 47

In vain did the Prince represent to her that he was famished--that fifty-four peas would go no way towards satisfying his hunger--that a few peas, more or less, surely could not matter.

Who acts: vain, that, fire · What happens: do, famish, go, satisfy, not matter, hunger · To what, where: Prince represent, woman, fire, way, hunger

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (vain, that, fire), 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	SCONJ	_	3 did	mark
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 go	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 represent	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 represent	compound
6	represent	represent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 famished	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 famished	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 famished	aux:pass
12	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 go	nsubj
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 four	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 fifty	punct
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 peas	nummod
18	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl:unmarked
23	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	24 satisfying	mark
24	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 go	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hunger	nmod:poss
26	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 satisfying	obj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 matter	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 matter	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 peas	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 peas	amod
31	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 more	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 peas	punct
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 surely	advmod
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 less	cc
35	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 more	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 more	punct
37	surely	surely	ADV	_	40 matter	advmod
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 matter	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 matter	advmod
40	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 go	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	vain	the Prince represent	woman		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent represent=Eventuality
2	famish	past · passive		fire			tree rules
3	go	would	that	no way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	satisfy	gerund	that not said here	fire's hunger			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
5	not matter	could				surely property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	hunger		fire				nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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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