The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 186
Well, here is a bucket that will not break.’
Who acts: bucket · What happens: be, not break · To what, where: bucket
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bucket), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 here | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bucket | det |
| 6 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 here | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 break | obj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 break | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 break | advmod |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bucket | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a bucket | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not break | future | a bucket | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=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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