The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 30
His motto was: “It will all come right in the end”; but what it did come to was ruin for Master Peter.
Who acts: motto · What happens: be, come · To what, where: end, ruin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (motto), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 motto | nmod:poss |
| 2 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 was | parataxis |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 end | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 end | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 was | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ruin | mark |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ruin | cop |
| 23 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Peter | case |
| 25 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Peter | compound |
| 26 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ruin | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Master's motto | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | future | motto | in the end | all property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location | |||
| 3 | come | past · do-support | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | ruin | for Master Peter | 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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