The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 20

“No, nothing, nothing; except, perhaps—but of course that is impossible!”

Who acts: that · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	_	4 nothing	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 nothing	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nothing	punct
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 nothing	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 perhaps	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 perhaps	punct
10	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 nothing	nmod
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 perhaps	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 impossible	cc
13	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	17 impossible	advmod
14	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 of	fixed
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 impossible	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 impossible	cop
17	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 perhaps	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 impossible	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that					impossible 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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