The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 6

He had struggled so long, and was so very, very tired; but he would not have minded that if he could have proved his innocence, and triumphed over his enemies.

Who acts: sun · What happens: struggle, be, not mind, prove, triumph · To what, where: innocence, enemies

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 struggled	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struggled	aux
3	struggled	struggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 struggled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tired	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
10	very	very	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 struggled	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 minded	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 minded	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 minded	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 minded	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 minded	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 minded	aux
20	minded	mind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 struggled	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 proved	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 proved	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 proved	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 proved	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 proved	aux
26	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 minded	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 innocence	nmod:poss
28	innocence	innocence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 proved	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 triumphed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 triumphed	cc
31	triumphed	triumph	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struggled	conj
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 enemies	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 enemies	nmod:poss
34	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 triumphed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	struggle	past · perfect	sun			long property	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past				tired property	tree rules
3	not mind	would · perfect	sun				vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	prove a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect	sun	sun's innocence			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Theme
5	triumph	past	sun not said here		sun's enemies		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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