The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 77

But it was only the same thing once again.

Who acts: way · What happens: be · To what, where: same thing

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	_	7 thing	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 thing	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 again	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 thing	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	way	the same thing			again		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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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