The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 17
Yes, there was no mistake, it was as short as before, or perhaps a little shorter.
Who acts: mistake · What happens: be · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistake), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 mistake | det |
| 6 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 short | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 short | advmod |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 short | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shorter | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 shorter | cc |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 shorter | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shorter | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 short | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mistake | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | mistake not said here | a little | perhaps 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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