The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 76
“It is not the first time people have wished to do that.
Who acts: world, people · What happens: not be, wish, do · To what, where: first time, that
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, people), 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 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 time | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wished | aux |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wished | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | world | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present · perfect | people | the first time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | people not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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