The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 85

And his father answered, ‘Ah, six were of no use, and where they failed, will you succeed?’

Who acts: father, six, sons, you · What happens: answer, be, fail, succeed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, six, sons, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 six	punct
7	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 six	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Ah	punct
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 use	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 use	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 use	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 use	det
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 succeed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 succeed	cc
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 failed	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 failed	nsubj
18	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 succeed	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 failed	punct
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 succeed	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 succeed	nsubj
22	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 succeed	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 succeed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	am's father		tree rules
2	is	past	six	of no use	tree rules
3	fail	past	sons = son		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	succeed	future	you		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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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