The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 106
Fairies are not long in doing their business.
Who acts: Fairies · What happens: not be, do · To what, where: business
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairies), 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 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 doing | mark |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 long | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 business | nmod:poss |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Fairies | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | Fairies not said here | horses's business | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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