The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 14
It was useless to assert his innocence; he was dismissed without ceremony.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, assert, dismiss · To what, where: innocence, King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | 3 useless | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 useless | cop |
| 3 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 assert | mark |
| 5 | assert | assert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 useless | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assert | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 dismissed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dismissed | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dismissed | aux:pass |
| 11 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 useless | conj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 ceremony | case |
| 13 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dismissed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 useless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assert | to-infinitive | King's innocence | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dismiss | past · passive | King | without ceremony | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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