The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 95
But vainly they practice their cruel arts, For nought can sever our two fond hearts.’
Who acts: enemies, nought · What happens: practice, sever · To what, where: cruel arts, two fond hearts
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemies, nought), 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 | _ | 4 practice | cc |
| 2 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 4 practice | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 practice | nsubj |
| 4 | practice | practice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 arts | amod |
| 7 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 practice | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sever | punct |
| 9 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 sever | mark |
| 10 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 sever | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sever | aux |
| 12 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 practice | conj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hearts | nummod |
| 15 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hearts | amod |
| 16 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sever | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 practice | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 practice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practice | present | enemies = enemy | enemies's cruel arts | vainly property | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme | |||
| 2 | sever | can | nought | our two fond hearts | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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