The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 3
“It is rather tiresome, of course—weddings are always so stupid; but still one must be good-natured!”
Who acts: bear, weddings · What happens: be, nature · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, weddings), 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 | _ | 5 tiresome | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tiresome | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiresome | cop |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 tiresome | advmod |
| 5 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 course | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 course | case |
| 8 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tiresome | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 stupid | punct |
| 10 | weddings | wedding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stupid | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stupid | cop |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 stupid | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 stupid | advmod |
| 14 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tiresome | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 natured | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 natured | cc |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 natured | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 natured | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 natured | aux:pass |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 natured | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 23 | natured | nature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tiresome | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiresome | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiresome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | bear | of course; tiresome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | weddings | always, stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | nature in a quote | must · passive | one | 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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