The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 71
But the answer was always, ‘No, no.’
What happens: be · To what, where: no.
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 answer | det |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 no. | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 was | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 no. | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 no. | punct |
| 8 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 no. | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 No | punct |
| 10 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 no. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | no. | 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 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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