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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 20

Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand.

Who acts: Courage, witches · What happens: have, win, lose, be · To what, where: many trials, battle, losing hand

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Courage, witches), 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

nsubjpunctconjpunctconjpunctconjpunctamodobjpunctccnsubjadvmodconjdetobjpunctmarknsubjpunctconjpunctamodamodconjpunctcopcasedetamodparataxispunctrootCourageNOUN,PUNCTyouthNOUN,PUNCTbeautyNOUN,PUNCTkindnessNOUN,PUNCThaveVERBmanyADJtrialsNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheyPRONalwaysADVwinVERBtheDETbattleNOUN;PUNCTwhileSCONJwitchesNOUN,PUNCTgiantsNOUN,PUNCTunfriendlyADJcruelADJpeopleNOUN,PUNCTareAUXonADPtheDETlosingVERBhandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CouragecourageNOUNNumber=Sing9 havensubj
2,,PUNCT_3 youthpunct
3youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing1 Courageconj
4,,PUNCT_5 beautypunct
5beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing1 Courageconj
6,,PUNCT_7 kindnesspunct
7kindnesskindnessNOUNNumber=Sing1 Courageconj
8,,PUNCT_1 Couragepunct
9havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
10manymanyADJDegree=Pos11 trialsamod
11trialstrialNOUNNumber=Plur9 haveobj
12,,PUNCT_16 winpunct
13butbutCCONJ_16 wincc
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 winnsubj
15alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot16 winadvmod
16winwinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 haveconj
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 battledet
18battlebattleNOUNNumber=Sing16 winobj
19;;PUNCT_33 handpunct
20whilewhileSCONJ_33 handmark
21witcheswitchNOUNNumber=Plur33 handnsubj
22,,PUNCT_23 giantspunct
23giantsgiantNOUNNumber=Plur21 witchesconj
24,,PUNCT_27 peoplepunct
25unfriendlyunfriendlyADJDegree=Pos27 peopleamod
26cruelcruelADJDegree=Pos27 peopleamod
27peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur21 witchesconj
28,,PUNCT_21 witchespunct
29arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 handcop
30ononADP_33 handcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 handdet
32losingloseVERBVerbForm=Ger33 handamod
33handhandNOUNNumber=Sing9 haveparataxis
34..PUNCT_9 havepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepresentCourage and youth and beauty and kindnessmany trialsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Patient
2winpresentCouragethe battlealways propertyvn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
3losegerundvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4ispresentwitches and giants and unfriendly cruel peoplethe losing handtree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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