The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 61
For this reason ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book’ is never likely to be illustrated by Mr. Ford.
Who acts: Ford · What happens: not be, illustrate
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ford), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 reason | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 likely | obl |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Book | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Book | det |
| 6 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Book | amod |
| 7 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Book | amod |
| 8 | Ghost | Ghost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Book | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ghost | punct |
| 10 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Book | compound |
| 11 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reason | appos |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Book | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 likely | cop |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 likely | advmod |
| 15 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 illustrated | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 illustrated | aux:pass |
| 18 | illustrated | illustrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 likely | xcomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Ford | case |
| 20 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ford | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 illustrated | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | for this reason; likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | illustrate | to-infinitive · passive | Ford Mr. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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