The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 140
Everything is for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.”
Who acts: Everything · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 best | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 best | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 best | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 best | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 best | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 best | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 best | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 worlds | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 worlds | det |
| 12 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 worlds | amod |
| 13 | worlds | world | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 best | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 best | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everything | good property | 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 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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