The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 75

And when the old woman heard this, she thought it was no use flattering him any longer, for never, never, could she take his strength from him.

Who acts: old woman, woman, boar, use · What happens: hear, think, be, flatter, not take · To what, where: this, use, Dragon, strength · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, boar, use), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	advcl
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 use	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 use	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 use	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
15	flattering	flatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 use	acl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flattering	obj
17	any	any	ADV	_	18 longer	advmod
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 flattering	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 never	case
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 take	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 strength	nmod:poss
29	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the old woman	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	woman			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is a	past	boar	no use		tree rules
4	flatter	gerund	no use not said here	Dragon	long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	not take	could	woman	Dragon's strength	from Dragon	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent strength=Theme for never=Asset from he=Source

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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