The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 75
But the dwarf’s wicked intentions were doomed to disappointment.
Who acts: dwarf · What happens: doom, intend · To what, where: wicked intentions
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 doomed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 intentions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 dwarf | case |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 intentions | amod |
| 6 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 doomed | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doomed | aux:pass |
| 8 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 disappointment | case |
| 10 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doomed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 doomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | past · passive | the dwarf's wicked intentions | to disappointment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | intend | the dwarf | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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