The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 112
The things would fit no one, however.
Who acts: things · What happens: fit · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fit | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fit | aux |
| 4 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fit | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 fit | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | would | the things | no one | however property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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