Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 133

The General tried them; but he could not loose them; and at last there was no one about the house but had tried to take the heads off the knot, but they could not.

Who acts: General · What happens: try, not lose, take · To what, where: hail, heads, knot

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (General), 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 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 loose	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 loose	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loose	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 loose	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 loose	advmod
10	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loose	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 last	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 loose	conj
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 last	acl:relcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 tried	cc
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tried	aux
25	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 loose	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tried	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heads	det
29	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	32 knot	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 knot	det
32	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 could	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 could	cc
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 could	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 could	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	past	the General	hail		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
2	not lose	could	General	hail		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	try	past · perfect	General not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	General not said here	the heads	the knot	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off knot=Initial_Location

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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