The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 82

‘It appeared that they were working into the tapestry all the stories the Fairies liked best, and they began to try and teach me to help them, but from the first class, where they tried me to begin with, I sank lower and lower, and not even the most simple stitches could I learn.

Who acts: It, birds, Fairies, I, simple stitches · What happens: appear, work, like, begin, try, teach · To what, where: stories, tapestry, best, me, Fairies, first class

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, birds, Fairies, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 working	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 working	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 working	aux
7	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 appeared	advcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 tapestry	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tapestry	det
10	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 working	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 stories	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stories	det
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 working	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairies	det
15	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 liked	nsubj
16	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stories	acl:relcl
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 liked	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 try	mark
23	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 teach	cc
25	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 try	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 teach	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 help	mark
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 teach	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 help	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sank	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 sank	cc
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 class	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 class	det
34	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 class	amod
35	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sank	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tried	punct
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 tried	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tried	nsubj
39	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 class	acl:relcl
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 tried	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 begin	mark
42	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 tried	xcomp
43	with	with	ADP	_	42 begin	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 class	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 sank	nsubj
46	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	advcl
47	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 sank	xcomp
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 lower	cc
49	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 lower	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 learn	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 learn	cc
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 learn	advmod
53	even	even	ADV	_	57 stitches	advmod
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 stitches	det
55	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	56 simple	advmod
56	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 stitches	amod
57	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 learn	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 learn	aux
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 learn	nsubj
60	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 appeared	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	It					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	past · progressive	birds = bird	all stories		the tapestry		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent story=Material into tapestry=Product
3	like	past	the Fairies	best				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme
4	begin	past	Fairies = fairy					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	try	to-infinitive	Fairies = fairy not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	teach speech: other	infinitive	Fairies = fairy not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	help	to-infinitive	Fairies = fairy not said here	Fairies = fairy				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
8	try	past	birds = bird	me				tree rules
9	begin not said to happen	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	sink	past	I			the first class	low property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	not learn	could	the simple stitches					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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