The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 77

As to the diamond lance, that will cut through any stone or metal.’

Who acts: that · What happens: cut

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 lance	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lance	det
4	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lance	compound
5	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cut	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 metal	cc
14	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stone	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	future	that					as the diamond lance; through any stone or metal	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through stone=Patient

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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