The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 85

Now the young man was not really dead, but only in a deep sleep.

Who acts: young man · What happens: not be

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 (young man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 dead	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dead	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sleep	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sleep	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 sleep	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 sleep	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sleep	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sleep	amod
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the young man				now	dead 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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