The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 15
And other people have lost theirs too; but that is no matter!
Who acts: other people, that · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: tails, matter
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other people, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lost | cc |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lost | obj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 lost | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 matter | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 matter | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 matter | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 matter | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | other people | tails = tail | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | no matter | 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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