The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 7

When the old woman saw that the powers of her magic were of so little avail, she had recourse to cunning.

Who acts: old woman, powers, woman · What happens: see, be, have · To what, where: recourse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, powers, woman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 avail	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 powers	det
8	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 avail	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 magic	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 magic	nmod:poss
11	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 powers	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 avail	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 avail	case
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 little	advmod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 avail	amod
16	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 cunning	case
22	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 recourse	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the old woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the powers of woman's magic		of little avail	tree rules
3	have	past	woman	recourse	to cunning	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=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 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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