The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 99

She answered, ‘No mortal is able entirely to understand the power of this ring, because no one thoroughly understands the secret signs engraved upon it.

Who acts: warning, mortal, one · What happens: answer, be, understand, engrave · To what, where: power, secret signs, ring

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warning, mortal, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 understand	punct
4	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	8 able	mark
5	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 mortal	det
6	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 able	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 understand	advcl
9	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	11 understand	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 understand	mark
11	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 power	det
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 understand	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 ring	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 power	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 understands	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 understands	mark
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 understands	nsubj
21	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	22 understands	advmod
22	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 understand	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 signs	det
24	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 signs	amod
25	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 understands	obj
26	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 signs	acl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 engraved	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	warning				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	no mortal			able property	tree rules
3	understand	to-infinitive		the power of this ring		entirely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
4	understand	present	no one	the secret signs		thoroughly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus
5	engrave	participle		the secret signs not said here	ring		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination

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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