The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 7
However, they had all been too clever for him, and he had no strength to fight any more.
Who acts: enemies, sun · What happens: have, be, fight · To what, where: strength
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 (enemies, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 clever | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 clever | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 clever | advmod |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 clever | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 strength | det |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 strength | acl |
| 19 | any | any | ADV | _ | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 fight | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | enemies = enemy | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | enemies = enemy not said here | for sun; all, clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | sun | no strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | sun not said here | no strength not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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