The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 86
Well, that was certainly a great deal, but after all, the crowsfoot was of no use without the trefoil, and there was so little time left.
Who acts: that, crowsfoot, little time · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: great deal, little time
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, crowsfoot, little time), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 deal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 deal | cop |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 deal | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 deal | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deal | amod |
| 8 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 use | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 use | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 crowsfoot | det |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crowsfoot | det |
| 15 | crowsfoot | crowsfoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 use | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 use | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 use | det |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deal | advcl |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 trefoil | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trefoil | det |
| 22 | trefoil | trefoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 use | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 was | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 deal | parataxis |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 little | advmod |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 time | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | a great deal | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | all crowsfoot | of no use; without the trefoil | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | little time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | little time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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