The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 49
What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not succeed there still remains the resource of tears.
Who acts: craft, soft words, these · What happens: not do, attain, not succeed, remain · To what, where: resource
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 (craft, soft words, these), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 craft | det |
| 2 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 attain | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 attain | aux |
| 9 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remains | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 remains | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 succeed | mark |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 succeed | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 succeed | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 succeed | advmod |
| 16 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 remains | advcl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 succeed | advmod |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 remains | advmod |
| 19 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 resource | det |
| 21 | resource | resource | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remains | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tears | case |
| 23 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 resource | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | what craft | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attain | may | soft words | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not succeed a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | these | there | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain | present | the resource of tears | still | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme resource=Attribute |
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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