The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 57

That was why I ordered the combat between you, though your faith to your word prevented my plan being successful, and I had to try another.

Who acts: That, I, plan, your, my · What happens: be, order, prevent, have, try, word · To what, where: combat, word, another

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 (That, I, plan, your), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ordered	nsubj
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 combat	det
7	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	obj
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 combat	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 faith	punct
11	though	though	ADP	_	13 faith	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 faith	nmod:poss
13	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 word	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 word	nmod:poss
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 faith	nmod
17	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 word	acl
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 plan	nmod:poss
19	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 successful	nsubj
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 successful	cop
21	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 prevented	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 try	mark
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	xcomp
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 try	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	That		why property	tree rules
2	order	past	I	the combat	between you; though your faith to your word	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Theme
3	prevent	participle		your word not said here		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	is	gerund	my plan		successful property	tree rules
5	have	past	I			tree rules
6	try	to-infinitive	I not said here	another		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Eventuality
7	word		your			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	plan		my			nom plan «cognition 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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