The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 20

Drakestail is off again, singing and spruce as before.

Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (Drakestail), 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	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 singing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 singing	cop
3	off	off	ADV	_	4 again	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	6 singing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spruce	cc
8	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	6 singing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Drakestail				again	sing 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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