The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 85
Surely fate might have spared him this!
What happens: spare · To what, where: fate
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 spared | advmod |
| 2 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spared | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spared | aux |
| 5 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spared | obj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 spared | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | might · perfect · passive | fate | surely 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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