The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 40
Many had risked their lives, but in vain.
What happens: risk · To what, where: Many
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: 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 risked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 risked | aux |
| 3 | risked | risk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 risked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 vain | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 vain | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 risked | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 risked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | risk | past · perfect · passive | Many | 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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