The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 7
I am sure nothing of this sort ever happens in a town.'
Who acts: I, nothing · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: town
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nothing), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 happens | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sort | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sort | det |
| 7 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 happens | advmod |
| 9 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happens | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | nothing | a town | ever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
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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