The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 58

‘Here the old wizard has no more power over us, and we can guard ourselves from his spells.

Who acts: old wizard, we, wizard · What happens: have, guard, spell · To what, where: more power, ourselves

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (old wizard, we, wizard), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 has	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wizard	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wizard	amod
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 power	det
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 power	amod
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 power	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 guard	cc
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 guard	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 guard	aux
16	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 has	conj
17	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 guard	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 spells	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 spells	nmod:poss
20	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 guard	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the old wizard	no more power	here	over us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	guard	can	we	ourselves		from wizard's spells	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ourselves=Beneficiary from spell=Theme
3	spell		wizard				nom spell «state 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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