The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 41

The tourney was fought, and in spite of Geirald’s fears Rosald managed to hang back to make attacks which were never meant to succeed, and to allow strokes which he could easily have parried to attain their end.

Who acts: Rosald, Geirald · What happens: fight, manage, hang back, make, not mean, succeed · To what, where: tourney, spite, attacks, strokes, end, fears

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 (Rosald, Geirald), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tourney	det
2	tourney	tourney	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fought	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	aux:pass
4	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 managed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 managed	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 spite	case
8	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 managed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 fears	case
10	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fears	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Geirald	case
12	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spite	nmod
13	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fears	appos
14	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hang	mark
16	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 managed	xcomp
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 hang	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hang	advcl
20	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 meant	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 meant	aux:pass
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 meant	advmod
24	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 attacks	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 succeed	mark
26	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 meant	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 allow	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 allow	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 allow	mark
30	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fought	conj
31	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 allow	obj
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 parried	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 parried	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 parried	aux
35	easily	easily	ADV	_	37 parried	advmod
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 parried	aux
37	parried	parry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 strokes	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 attain	mark
39	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 parried	advcl
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 end	nmod:poss
41	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 attain	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past · passive		the tourney			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
2	manage	past			spite of Geirald's fears		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hang back	to-infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	to-infinitive		attacks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product
5	not mean	past · passive		attacks			tree rules
6	succeed not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	allow	to-infinitive		strokes			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Beneficiary
8	parry	could · perfect	Rosald	strokes		easily property	tree rules
9	attain	to-infinitive	Rosald not said here	strokes's end			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
10	spite			Geirald's fears			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
11	fear		Geirald				nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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