The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 23

‘It was all quite fair; we tried it twice over.’

Who acts: apple, we · What happens: be, try · To what, where: apple

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fair	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 fair	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 fair	advmod
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tried	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tried	obj
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 over	advmod
12	over	over	ADV	_	9 tried	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	apple					all, fair property	tree rules
2	try	past	we	apple				over property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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