The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 102

They gave themselves a great deal of trouble, but in vain; the twigs and fruit bent back every time from their hands.

Who acts: sisters · What happens: give, bend back, deal · To what, where: sisters, fruit, trouble

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 gave	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 trouble	case
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vain	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 vain	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 vain	case
12	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 twigs	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 twigs	det
15	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fruit	cc
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 twigs	conj
18	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fruit	acl
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 bent	advmod
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bent	obl:unmarked
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 time	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	sisters = sister	sisters = sister		the twigs and fruit obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient deal=Theme
2	bend back	participle		fruit not said here	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	deal			trouble			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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