Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 41
But all his efforts were in vain; she appeared to be in a sort of trance, and all he could do did not succeed in waking her.
Who acts: efforts, goat, Scarcely, all · What happens: be, appear, do, not succeed, wake · To what, where: sort, goat
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (efforts, goat, Scarcely, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 vain | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 efforts | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vain | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vain | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vain | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sort | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sort | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sort | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sort | det |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trance | case |
| 17 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sort | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 succeed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 succeed | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 succeed | nsubj:outer |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 all | acl:relcl |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 succeed | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 succeed | advmod |
| 26 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 appeared | conj |
| 27 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 28 waking | mark |
| 28 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 succeed | advcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 waking | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Scarcely's efforts | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | goat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | goat not said here | a sort | of trance | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | could | Scarcely | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not succeed | past · do-support | all | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wake | gerund | all not said here | goat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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