The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 101

By God’s grace you have removed my children’s powerful foe.

Who acts: grace · What happens: remove · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grace), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 grace	case
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grace	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 God	case
4	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 removed	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 removed	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 removed	aux
7	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 foe	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 children	case
11	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 foe	amod
12	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 removed	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 removed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	present · perfect · passive	God's grace	you					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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