The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 89
Good luck never attends fishing on a Sunday.’
Who acts: Good luck · What happens: not attend, fish
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 (Good luck), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 luck | amod |
| 2 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attends | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 attends | advmod |
| 4 | attends | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 attends | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Sunday | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Sunday | det |
| 8 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fishing | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attends | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 attends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attend | present | Good luck | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fish | gerund | Good luck not said here | sunday | vn hunt-35.1 «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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