The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 57

And all her father's and mother's tears and prayers availed nothing to move her.

Who acts: tears · What happens: avail, move · To what, where: nothing, Muffette

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 (tears), 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	_	12 availed	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 father	det:predet
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 father	case
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mother	cc
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tears	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 availed	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 prayers	cc
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tears	conj
12	availed	avail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 availed	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 move	mark
15	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 nothing	acl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 move	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 availed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avail	past	Muffette's father's mother's tears and prayers	nothing					tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive	Muffette's father's mother's tears and prayers not said here	Muffette					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result

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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