The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 84

In vain the Giant showed me his menagerie, which was entirely composed of children who would not work!

Who acts: Giant, children · What happens: show, compose, not work · To what, where: menagerie, me, vain

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 (Giant, children), 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	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 showed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 showed	nsubj
5	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 showed	iobj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 menagerie	nmod:poss
8	menagerie	menagerie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 composed	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 composed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 composed	aux:pass
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	13 composed	advmod
13	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 menagerie	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 children	case
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 composed	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 work	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 work	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 work	advmod
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 children	acl:relcl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past	the Giant	word's menagerie	me	vain		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient menagerie=Topic
2	compose	past · passive		word's menagerie			of children; entirely property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	not work	would	children					vn employment-95.3 «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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