The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 7

‘Unless thou canst defend the fountain all will be lost, and none can defend the fountain except a knight of Arthur’s court.

Who acts: thou, fountain, none · What happens: defend, lose · To what, where: fountain, all

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 (thou, fountain, none), 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 defend	punct
2	Unless	unless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 defend	advcl
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 defend	nsubj
4	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	5 defend	aux
5	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 defend	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 lost	nsubj:pass
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 lost	aux:pass
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fountain	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 defend	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 defend	cc
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	16 defend	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 defend	aux
16	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 defend	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fountain	det
18	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 defend	obj
19	except	except	ADP	_	21 knight	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knight	det
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fountain	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 court	case
23	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 court	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Arthur	case
25	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knight	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 defend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	defend	can	thou	the fountain		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Beneficiary
2	lose	future · passive	the fountain not said here	all		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	defend	can	none	the fountain	except a knight of Arthur's court	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Beneficiary

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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