The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 51
It is only through work and care that man can ever hope to be good for anything.’
Who acts: world, man · What happens: be, hope · To what, where: work, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 work | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 work | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 care | cc |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hope | obj |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hope | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hope | aux |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 hope | advmod |
| 12 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 work | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 good | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 good | cop |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hope | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 anything | case |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 good | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | world | work and care | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hope | can | man | that | ever | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | for anything; good property | tree rules |
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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