The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 37

A wife cannot always charm, and though YOU will never alter, the beauty of mortals is as a flower that fades.

Who acts: YOU, beauty, flower · What happens: not alter, be, fade

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (YOU, beauty, flower), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charm	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 charm	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 charm	advmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 charm	advmod
6	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flower	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flower	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 alter	mark
10	YOU	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 alter	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 alter	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 alter	advmod
13	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 flower	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 alter	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beauty	det
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flower	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 mortals	case
18	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beauty	nmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 flower	cop
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 flower	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 flower	det
22	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charm	appos
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fades	nsubj
24	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 flower	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 charm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not alter	future	YOU		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	the beauty of mortals	as a flower	tree rules
3	fade	present	a flower		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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