Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 112

The latter squeezed and squeezed the stone, but in vain.

Who acts: latter · What happens: squeeze · To what, where: stone

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter), 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 latter	det
2	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 squeezed	nsubj
3	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 squeezed	cc
5	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 squeezed	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squeezed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 vain	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 vain	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 vain	case
11	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 squeezed	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 squeezed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	past	the latter						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	squeeze	past	the latter not said here	the stone					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

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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