The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 24

'You thought that love would conquer all obstacles,' said he; 'well, you have found it hasn't!

Who acts: You, love, lake · What happens: think, conquer, say, find, not have · To what, where: obstacles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, love, lake), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 love	det
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conquer	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 conquer	aux
7	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 obstacles	det
9	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 conquer	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
16	well	well	INTJ	_	20 found	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 well	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 found	aux
20	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thought	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 found	ccomp
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 has	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	You		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	conquer	would	that love	all obstacles	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obstacle=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	love		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	find	present · perfect	you		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not have	present	lake		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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