The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 37
She thought, and thought, and looked through all her books of riddles and puzzles, but she found nothing to help her, and could not guess; in fact, she was at her wits’ end.
Who acts: poison · What happens: think, look, find, help, not guess, be · To what, where: nothing, poison, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poison), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 books | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 books | det:predet |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 books | nmod:poss |
| 12 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 riddles | case |
| 14 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 books | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 puzzles | cc |
| 16 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 riddles | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 nothing | acl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 guess | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 guess | cc |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 guess | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 guess | advmod |
| 29 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 found | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 end | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 fact | case |
| 32 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 end | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fact | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 end | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 end | cop |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 end | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wits | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 end | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 38 wits | case |
| 40 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 guess | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | poison | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | through poison's books of riddles and puzzles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through book=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | poison | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | poison not said here | nothing not said here | poison | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | not guess | could | poison not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | poison | at poison's wits's end | in fact | tree rules |
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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