Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 59

And, indeed, it was a marvellous thing; but what will not a woman's wit effect in the attaining of that which she greatly desires?

Who acts: devil, marvellous thing, Floripas · What happens: be, not effect, attain, desire · To what, where: marvellous thing

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil, marvellous thing, Floripas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 thing	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 thing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 effect	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 effect	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 effect	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 effect	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 effect	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 effect	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 woman	case
18	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 effect	compound
19	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	conj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 attaining	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 attaining	det
22	attaining	attain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 effect	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 attaining	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 desires	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 desires	nsubj
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	28 desires	advmod
28	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 attaining	advcl:relcl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	devil	a marvellous thing but a woman's wit effect	indeed property	tree rules
2	not effect	future	a marvellous thing but a woman's wit effect		a woman nmod:poss	tree rules
3	attain	gerund	a marvellous thing but a woman's wit effect not said here		of that	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	desire	present	Floripas		which obj; greatly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 59