Celtic Fairy Tales, Beth Gellert, sentence 21
In vain was all Llewelyn's grief; he could not bring his faithful dog to life again.
Who acts: Llewelyn · What happens: be, not bring · To what, where: grief, vain, faithful dog, life
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Beth Gellert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Llewelyn), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grief | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grief | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 grief | det |
| 5 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grief | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Llewelyn | case |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bring | advmod |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grief | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dog | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dog | amod |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Llewelyn's grief | vain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bring | could | Llewelyn | Llewelyn's faithful dog | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme to life=Destination |
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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