The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 21

This was a very important point, and needed much discussion.

Who acts: This, important point · What happens: be, need · To what, where: important point, much discussion

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, important point), 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	6 point	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 point	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 point	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 important	advmod
5	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 point	amod
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 needed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 needed	cc
9	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 point	acl:relcl
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 discussion	amod
11	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needed	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a important point					tree rules
2	need	past	a important point not said here	much discussion					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot discussion=Theme

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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