The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 95
This was a chance not to be missed, and taking her daughter with her she went up to the palace, where she had never been before.
Who acts: This, chance, woman · What happens: be, not miss, take, go up, not be · To what, where: chance, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, chance, woman), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 chance | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chance | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chance | det |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 missed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 missed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 missed | aux:pass |
| 8 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 chance | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taking | cc |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 chance | acl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taking | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taking | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 before | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 before | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 before | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 before | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 before | advmod |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 before | cop |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 palace | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a chance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not miss | to-infinitive · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 3 | take | gerund | a chance not said here | woman's daughter | with woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | |||
| 4 | go up | past | woman | to the palace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | not is | past · perfect | woman | before 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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