The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 48

It was not an easy thing, but a woman’s will can press milk out of a stone, and her cunning will overcome heroes.

Who acts: mind, cunning · What happens: not be, press, overcome · To what, where: easy thing, milk, stone, heroes

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, cunning), 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	6 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 thing	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 press	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 press	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 press	parataxis
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 woman	case
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 press	aux
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 press	aux
14	press	press	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	parataxis
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 press	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 stone	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 press	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 overcome	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 overcome	cc
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cunning	nmod:poss
23	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 overcome	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 overcome	aux
25	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 press	conj
26	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 overcome	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a	past	mind	a easy thing		tree rules
2	press	can · future		milk	a stone	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
3	overcome	future	woman's cunning	heroes		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hero=Theme

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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