The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 5
Never was there a beautiful soul in such a frightful little body, but in spite of his appearance everybody loved him.
Who acts: beautiful soul, everybody · What happens: not be, love, spite · To what, where: Grumpy, spite, appearance
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful soul, everybody), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 there | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 soul | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soul | amod |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 there | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 body | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 10 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 body | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 body | amod |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soul | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loved | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 loved | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spite | case |
| 16 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loved | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 appearance | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spite | nmod |
| 20 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 loved | nsubj |
| 21 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 loved | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | a beautiful soul in such frightful little body | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | everybody | Grumpy | spite of Grumpy's appearance | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | spite | Grumpy's appearance | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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