The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 22

We cannot all be young, alas! and pretty, and strong; but nothing prevents us from being kind, and no kind man, woman, or beast or bird, ever comes to anything but good in these oldest fables of the world.

Who acts: We, nothing · What happens: not be, be, prevent, come · To what, where: us, anything

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 (We, nothing), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 young	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 young	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 young	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 young	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 young	cop
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 alas	punct
8	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 young	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 alas	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strong	cc
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	14 strong	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 strong	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 strong	cc
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 young	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 prevents	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 prevents	cc
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 prevents	nsubj
18	prevents	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 young	parataxis
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 prevents	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 kind	case
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 kind	cop
22	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 prevents	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 man	cc
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 man	det
26	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prevents	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 woman	punct
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	vocative
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beast	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 beast	cc
32	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	parataxis
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 bird	cc
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 beast	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 comes	punct
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 comes	advmod
37	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 prevents	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 anything	case
39	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 comes	obl
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 good	cc
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 anything	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 fables	case
43	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	45 fables	det
44	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 fables	amod
45	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 good	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 world	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fables	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	We				young property	tree rules
2	be		We not said here				pretty property	tree rules
3	prevent	present	nothing	us				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer we=Theme
4	is	gerund					kind property	tree rules
5	come	present	nothing not said here		anything	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to anything=Initial_Location

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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