The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 139
But Death was not so near as the doctors thought, and still he lingered.
Who acts: Death, doctors · What happens: not be, think, linger
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, doctors), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 2 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 near | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 near | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 near | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 near | advmod |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 thought | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doctors | det |
| 9 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lingered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lingered | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 lingered | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lingered | nsubj |
| 15 | lingered | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Death | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the doctors | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | linger | past | death | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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