The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 88
It was no worldly wife she found for him, but the swift March wind, and never can you prevail against her.'
Who acts: fain, wife, you · What happens: be, find, not prevail · To what, where: worldly wife
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fain, wife, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wife | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 wife | det |
| 4 | worldly | worldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wife | amod |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wife | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wind | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 wind | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 swift | det |
| 13 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wind | compound |
| 14 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 swift | appos |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prevail | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prevail | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 prevail | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 prevail | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 prevail | nsubj |
| 21 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wife | parataxis |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 prevail | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fain | no worldly wife but swift wind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | wife | no worldly wife but swift wind not said here | for Iarlaid | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | not prevail | can | you | against wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against she=Location |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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