The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 53

But at the first church we come to his power ceases; he may chase us no further.

Who acts: we, father · What happens: come, chase · To what, where: first church, us

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, father), 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	_	7 come	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 church	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 church	amod
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 ceases	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ceases	nmod:poss
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ceases	compound
11	ceases	cease	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 chase	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 chase	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 chase	aux
15	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 chase	obj
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 further	advmod
18	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 chase	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	we			the first church		to father's power ceases	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cease=Initial_Location
2	chase	may	father	us				far property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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 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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