The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 28
“Oh, don’t be so wretched; it is only dead people who never return.
Who acts: you, shrine, dead people · What happens: be, not return · To what, where: dead people
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shrine, dead people), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wretched | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 wretched | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wretched | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 wretched | advmod |
| 8 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 people | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 people | advmod |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wretched | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 return | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 return | advmod |
| 17 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | wretched property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | shrine | dead people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not return in a quote | present | dead people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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