The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 3
Now in the next kingdom everything was as different as it could possibly be.
Who acts: everything · What happens: be · To what, where: next kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 different | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kingdom | amod |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 different | obl |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 different | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 different | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 different | advmod |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 be | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 be | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 13 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 14 be | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 different | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | the next kingdom | now | different property | 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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