The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 72
'The past cannot be undone,' went on the raven. '
What happens: not undo, go · To what, where: past, raven
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 undone | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 past | det |
| 3 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 undone | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 undone | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 undone | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 undone | aux:pass |
| 7 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 undone | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 undone | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 raven | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 raven | det |
| 13 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not undo | can · passive | the past | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the raven | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on raven=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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