English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 61
The king and queen tried all they could do to wake him up, but all in vain.
Who acts: king, all · What happens: try, do, wake up · To what, where: giant
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, all), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 queen | cc |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wake | mark |
| 11 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wake | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 wake | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vain | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 vain | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 vain | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 vain | case |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tried | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the king and queen | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | could | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wake up | to-infinitive | all not said here | giant | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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