The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 28

And now they seemed farther apart than ever, and in despair they tried once more to throw themselves into the foaming waves.

Who acts: Sylvain · What happens: seem, try, throw · To what, where: more, despair, Sylvain, foaming waves

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seemed	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 apart	advmod
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 apart	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 despair	case
12	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tried	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 tried	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 throw	mark
18	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	ccomp
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 throw	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 waves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 waves	det
22	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waves	compound
23	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 throw	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Sylvain			now	apart property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	Sylvain	more	despair			tree rules
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sylvain not said here	Sylvain			into the foaming waves result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer themselves=Theme into wave=Result

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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