The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 80
“It is just a trick of Fortune’s, who would never smile upon us.”
Who acts: meal, trick · What happens: be, not smile · To what, where: trick
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 (meal, trick), 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 | _ | 6 trick | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trick | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 trick | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trick | det |
| 6 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fortune | case |
| 8 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 trick | nmod |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Fortune | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smile | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 smile | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 smile | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 smile | advmod |
| 14 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trick | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 smile | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trick | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | meal | a trick | of Fortune | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not smile in a quote | would | a trick | upon us | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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