The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 72
‘Faint heart never won fair lady,’ says the prince.
Who acts: Faint heart · What happens: not win, say · To what, where: fair lady, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Faint heart), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| 2 | Faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 won | advmod |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | ccomp |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not win | past | Faint heart | fair lady | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the prince | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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