The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 131
No, it could not be true!... they came to a large raspberry wood.
Who acts: plenty, berries · What happens: not be, come · To what, where: large raspberry wood
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, berries), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 true | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 true | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 true | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
| 9 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wood | amod |
| 15 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wood | compound |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could | plenty | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | berries = berry | a large raspberry wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location |
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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