The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 40
No wooden shoes have ever been over that floor yet.’
Who acts: wooden shoes · What happens: have, be · To what, where: floor
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wooden shoes), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 shoes | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoes | amod |
| 3 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 floor | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 floor | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 floor | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 floor | det |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | no wooden shoes | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | that floor | ever | 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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