The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 26
Well, never mind, that has happened to all of us, and it really is not a bad life.
Who acts: you, that, tunny · What happens: not mind, happen, not be · To what, where: bad life
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, tunny), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 mind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 mind | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 all | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 life | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 life | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 life | nsubj |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 life | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 life | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 life | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 life | det |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | present · perfect | that | to all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | tunny | a bad life | 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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