The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 114
But, alas! your hope that you may attain your deliverance through us is but a vain one.
Who acts: hope, your · What happens: attain, be, hope, deliver · To what, where: deliverance, vain one
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, your), 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 | _ | 19 one | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hope | punct |
| 3 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 hope | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hope | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 attain | nsubj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 attain | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 attain | aux |
| 10 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hope | acl:relcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attain | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 attain | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 one | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attain | may | your hope | your deliverance | through us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deliverance=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | your hope | a vain one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | your | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | deliver | your | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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