The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 3
For perhaps the first time in his life his thoughts did not instantly turn to money.
Who acts: thoughts, trace · What happens: not turn, think · To what, where: money
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 (thoughts, trace), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 time | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turn | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 turn | advmod |
| 13 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 14 turn | advmod |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 money | case |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn | past · do-support | trace's thoughts | money | time | instantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to money=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | think | trace | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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