The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 21

‘Had he not been stronger than thy lord,’ replied the damsel, ‘he could not have taken his life, and for that, and for all things that are past, there is no remedy.’

Who acts: man, things, remedy · What happens: have, not be, reply, not take, be · To what, where: things, damsel, life

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, things, remedy), 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	_	2 Had	punct
2	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stronger	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 stronger	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stronger	cop
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Had	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 lord	case
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 lord	nmod:poss
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stronger	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Had	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 damsel	det
14	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taken	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 taken	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 taken	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 taken	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 taken	advmod
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 taken	aux
21	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 replied	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taken	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 that	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 that	cc
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Had	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 things	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 things	cc
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 things	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 things	det
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Had	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 past	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 past	cop
35	past	past	ADV	_	32 things	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 is	punct
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 is	expl
38	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Had	conj
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 remedy	det
40	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 is	nsubj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past		all things		for that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	not is	participle	man			than thy lord; strong property	tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past		the damsel			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent damsel=Topic
4	not take	could · perfect	man	man's life			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	is	present	all things			past property	tree rules
6	be	present	no remedy		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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