The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 23

Whether Geirald was right or not in thinking that the so-called page was really a well-proved knight, it is certain that Rosald’s task was a very hard one.

Who acts: Geirald, called page, it, task, Rosald · What happens: be, not think, call, prove, task · To what, where: proved knight, hard one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geirald, called page, it, task), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	4 right	mark
2	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 certain	advcl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 thinking	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 thinking	advmod
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 thinking	mark
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 right	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 knight	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 page	det
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 called	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 so	punct
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 page	amod
14	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knight	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knight	cop
16	really	really	ADV	_	21 knight	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knight	det
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 proved	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
20	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 knight	amod
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thinking	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 certain	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 certain	cop
25	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 one	mark
27	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 task	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Rosald	case
29	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 one	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 one	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 one	det
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 hard	advmod
33	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 one	amod
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 certain	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 certain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Geirald		right property	tree rules
2	not think speech: other	gerund	Geirald not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prove	participle			well property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the called page	a proved knight		tree rules
6	is	present	it		certain property	tree rules
7	is a	past	Rosald's task	a hard one		tree rules
8	task		Rosald			nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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