The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 45

For the rain at least can at last wear away the stone, but you might cry for ever, and she would never care.

Who acts: you, Tephany · What happens: cry, not care

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Tephany), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 rain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rain	det
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cry	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 least	case
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 wear	obl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 wear	aux
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 wear	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wear	amod
9	wear	wear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rain	nmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 wear	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cry	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 cry	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 cry	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cry	aux
17	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ever	case
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 cry	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 care	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 care	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 care	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 care	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 care	advmod
25	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cry	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	might	you					for the rain at last wear	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for rain=Recipient
2	not care	would	Tephany						vn care-88.1-1 «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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