The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 84
The furnace was soon hot, but this time Drakestail was not so afraid; he counted on his sweetheart, my friend River.
Who acts: furnace, time, Drakestail · What happens: be, not be, count
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 (furnace, time, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 furnace | det |
| 2 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 afraid | cc |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 10 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 time | appos |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 afraid | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 afraid | advmod |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hot | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 counted | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 counted | nsubj |
| 17 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 sweetheart | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 counted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 counted | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 counted | advcl |
| 24 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 friend | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the furnace | hot, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | this time | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | count | past | Drakestail | on Drakestail's sweetheart | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on sweetheart=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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