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title: But all his efforts were in vain; she appeared to be in a sort of tr… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its dependenc
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 41

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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.

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**Who acts:** efforts, goat, Scarcely, all · **What happens:** be, appear, do, not succeed, wake · **To what, where:** sort, goat

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:17:41
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj:outer	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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