The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 83
But this will never be my luck.’
Who acts: this · What happens: not be · To what, where: luck
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 luck | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 luck | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 luck | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 luck | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 luck | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 luck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 luck | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 luck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | future | this | my luck | 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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/83/