More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 34

Maybe, too, 't was a trick of the fairy's.

Who acts: t · What happens: be · To what, where: trick

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (t), 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	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	9 trick	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trick	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	9 trick	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trick	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 t	punct
6	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trick	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trick	det
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fairy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fairy	det
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod
13	's	's	PART	_	12 fairy	case
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 trick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	t	a trick				of the fairy; maybe property	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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