The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 12

But the lock was stiff and resisted all her efforts, and in the end she had to break it.

Who acts: lock, maiden · What happens: be, resist, have, break · To what, where: efforts, end, lock

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lock, maiden), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 stiff	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lock	det
3	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stiff	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	cop
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 resisted	cc
7	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 efforts	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 efforts	nmod:poss
10	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 resisted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 break	mark
19	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 break	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stiff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lock			stiff property	tree rules
2	resist	past	the lock not said here	maiden's efforts			tree rules
3	have	past	maiden		in the end		tree rules
4	break	to-infinitive	maiden not said here	lock			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

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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