The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 48

It was quite useless, in the end he had to count out the fifty-four, and worse than that, because he dropped one or two in his hurry, he had to begin again from the very first, to be sure the number was complete.

Who acts: vain, fire, end, number · What happens: be, have, count out, drop, begin, hurry · To what, where: end, fifty four, one, hurry

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, fire, end, number), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 useless	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 useless	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 useless	advmod
4	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 end	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 useless	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 end	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 count	mark
12	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 count	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 four	det
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 four	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 fifty	punct
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 count	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 worse	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 worse	cc
20	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 useless	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 worse	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dropped	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 dropped	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dropped	nsubj
26	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 useless	parataxis
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 dropped	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 two	cc
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 one	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hurry	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hurry	nmod:poss
32	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dropped	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 had	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 useless	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 begin	mark
37	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
38	again	again	ADV	_	37 begin	advmod
39	from	from	ADP	_	42 first	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 first	det
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 first	advmod
42	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 begin	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sure	punct
44	to	to	PART	_	46 sure	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 sure	cop
46	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 begin	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 number	det
48	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 complete	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 complete	cop
50	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sure	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 useless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	vain			in the end	useless property	tree rules
2	have	past	fire	the end not said here				tree rules
3	count out	to-infinitive	the end not said here	the fifty four				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme
4	be		vain not said here				than that	tree rules
5	drop	past	fire	one	fire's hurry			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in hurry=Destination
6	have	past	fire					tree rules
7	begin	to-infinitive	fire not said here			again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	is	to-infinitive	fire not said here				sure property	tree rules
9	is	past	the number				complete property	tree rules
10	hurry		fire					nom hurry «state transitive»: 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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