The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 72

But do not be surprised if it was not quite so bad as that, for the wolf was quite a friendly one.

Who acts: you, pity, wolf · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: friendly one

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pity, wolf), 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	_	5 surprised	cc
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 surprised	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprised	cop
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 bad	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bad	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bad	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bad	advmod
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 bad	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bad	advmod
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surprised	advcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 bad	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 one	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wolf	det
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
20	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	23 one	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	imperative · do-support	you not said here		surprised property	tree rules
2	not is	past	pity		as that; bad property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the wolf	quite friendly one		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.

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