The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 34

How there could be any trickery she could not understand, and why the real victor should be willing to give up his prize to another was still stranger; but something in her heart warned her to be careful.

Who acts: trickery, real victor, something · What happens: not be, be, give up, warn · To what, where: prize, queen

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trickery, real victor, something), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 be	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 understand	cop
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 trickery	det
6	trickery	trickery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 understand	nsubj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 understand	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 understand	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 understand	advmod
10	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 willing	cc
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 willing	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 victor	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 victor	amod
16	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 willing	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 willing	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 willing	cop
19	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 understand	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 give	mark
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 willing	xcomp
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 give	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 prize	nmod:poss
24	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 stranger	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 stranger	det
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stranger	cop
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 stranger	advmod
29	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 warned	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 warned	cc
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 warned	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 heart	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 heart	nmod:poss
35	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 something	nmod
36	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 understand	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 warned	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	40 careful	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 careful	cop
40	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 warned	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	could · infinitive	any trickery				understand property	tree rules
2	is	should	the real victor				willing property	tree rules
3	give up	to-infinitive	the real victor not said here	king's prize				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Source
4	is	past				still	to another stranger	tree rules
5	warn speech: warn	past	something		queen			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is	to-infinitive	something not said here				careful property	tree rules

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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