The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 41
“Nothing will have happened,” said the girls.
Who acts: Nothing, girls · What happens: happen, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, girls), 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 | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happened | aux |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girls | det |
| 10 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | future · perfect | Nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the girls | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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