The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 52

‘Yes,’ he answered, ‘my palace is a thing of the past; you will see it again, but not until after you have been buried.’

Who acts: palace, you · What happens: answer, be, see, not bury · To what, where: thing, past, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 palace	nmod:poss
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thing	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 past	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 past	det
16	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thing	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 buried	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 buried	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 buried	advmod
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 buried	mark
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 buried	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 buried	nsubj:pass
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 buried	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 buried	aux:pass
31	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 answered	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	palace				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	my palace	a thing		of the past	tree rules
3	see	future	you	past	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	not bury	present · perfect · passive		you			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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