The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 72

With all her might she worked at the knots, but not a single one could she undo, though all appeared so easy.

Who acts: Eglantine, single one · What happens: work, undo, appear

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eglantine, single one), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 her	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 her	det:predet
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worked	obl
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 worked	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worked	nsubj
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 knots	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knots	det
9	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 undo	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 undo	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 one	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 undo	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 undo	aux
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 undo	nsubj
18	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 worked	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 appeared	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 appeared	mark
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 appeared	advmod
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 undo	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 easy	advmod
24	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 appeared	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	work	might	Eglantine	with Eglantine; at the knots	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent with she=Co-Agent at knot=Theme
2	undo	could	a single one		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	appear	past	a single one not said here	all, easy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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