The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 64
The wound was really so slight that it was quite well next day, and the little Roe did not feel it at all.
Who acts: wound, little Roe · What happens: be, not feel · To what, where: next day, wound, all
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wound, little Roe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wound | det |
| 2 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slight | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 slight | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 slight | advmod |
| 6 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 day | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 day | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 day | cop |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 day | advmod |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slight | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 feel | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Roe | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Roe | amod |
| 18 | Roe | Roe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 feel | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 feel | advmod |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 slight | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 feel | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wound | slight property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | wound | next day | well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not feel | past · do-support | the little Roe | wound | all | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Location |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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