The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 27

The bear thrust them into his mouth, but try as he might he could not manage to crack them.

Who acts: bear · What happens: thrust, try, not manage, crack · To what, where: tailors, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrust	nsubj
3	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thrust	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrust	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 try	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 try	cc
10	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrust	advcl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 manage	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 manage	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 manage	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 manage	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 manage	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 manage	advmod
17	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 try	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 crack	mark
19	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 manage	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 crack	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	thrust	infinitive	the bear	tailors = tailor	bear's mouth	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	try	present	the bear not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not manage not said to happen	could	bear			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	crack not said to happen	to-infinitive	bear not said here	tailors = tailor		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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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