The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 298

But the prize was too great for any proclamation to put a stop to the efforts of the crowd of suitors, and that year the orchards of the Low Countries all bore a harvest of dead men.

Who acts: prize · What happens: be, put, bear · To what, where: stop, harvest

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prize), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 great	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prize	det
3	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 great	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 great	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 great	advmod
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 proclamation	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 proclamation	det
9	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 great	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 put	mark
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 proclamation	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stop	det
13	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 efforts	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 efforts	det
16	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 crowd	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crowd	det
19	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 efforts	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 suitors	case
21	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crowd	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bore	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bore	cc
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 year	det
25	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bore	obl:unmarked
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 orchards	det
27	orchards	orchard	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 year	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Countries	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Countries	det
30	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Countries	amod
31	Countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 orchards	nmod
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 bore	advmod
33	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 great	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 harvest	det
35	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bore	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 men	case
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 men	amod
38	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 harvest	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prize			for any proclamation; great property	tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive	the prize not said here	a stop		to the efforts of the crowd of suitors	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stop=Goal
3	bear	past	the prize not said here	a harvest of dead men	year	all property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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