More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 14

Ay, if that isn't a good change!

Who acts: that · What happens: not be · To what, where: good change

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	9 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 change	mark
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 change	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 change	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 change	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 change	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 change	amod
9	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 change	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	that	a good change					tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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