The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 59
'Poisoned or not, the porridge is excellent.
Who acts: porridge · What happens: poison, not be
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porridge), 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 | _ | 2 Poisoned | punct |
| 2 | Poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 excellent | cc |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 excellent | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 excellent | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 porridge | det |
| 7 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excellent | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 excellent | cop |
| 9 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Poisoned | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Poisoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is | present | the porridge | excellent 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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