The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 70

Not that the ceremony was put off for a little thing like that!

What happens: not put off · To what, where: ceremony

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 put	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ceremony	det
4	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux:pass
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 put	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 thing	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 put	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put off	past · passive		the ceremony				for a little thing; like that	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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