The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 7
Now it is all very well to abuse the God of Love, but a man cannot struggle against his fate.
Who acts: forest, man · What happens: be, not struggle, fate
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 abuse | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 abuse | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 abuse | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 abuse | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 abuse | mark |
| 8 | abuse | abuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 God | det |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 abuse | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Love | case |
| 12 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 God | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 struggle | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 struggle | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struggle | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 struggle | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 struggle | advmod |
| 19 | struggle | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 abuse | conj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 fate | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fate | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struggle | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 abuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | forest | now | abuse, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not struggle | can | a man | against man's fate | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fate | man | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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