Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 95
But though they tried and tried, it would fit neither of them.
Who acts: princes, company · What happens: try, fit · To what, where: neither
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, company), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fit | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 tried | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fit | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fit | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fit | aux |
| 10 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 fit | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 neither | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | princes = prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | try | past | princes = prince not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fit | would | company | neither | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neither=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: «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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