Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 15
But it would be no mystery at all if this new edition were to be more popular than the old one.
Who acts: survival, new edition · What happens: be · To what, where: mystery, all
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (survival, new edition), 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 | _ | 6 mystery | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mystery | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mystery | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mystery | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 mystery | det |
| 6 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 mystery | nmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 popular | mark |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 edition | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 edition | amod |
| 12 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 popular | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 popular | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 popular | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 popular | cop |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 popular | advmod |
| 17 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mystery | advcl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 popular | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mystery | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | survival | no mystery | all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | this new edition | than the old one; popular 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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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