The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 71

Was it not necessary that his body, as well as his shroud, should be ready for the burial?

Who acts: body · What happens: not be, be

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 (body), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 necessary	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 necessary	expl
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 necessary	advmod
4	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 ready	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ready	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shroud	punct
9	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 shroud	cc
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 as	fixed
11	as	as	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shroud	nmod:poss
13	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 body	punct
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ready	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 ready	cop
17	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 necessary	advcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 burial	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 burial	det
20	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ready	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 necessary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past						necessary property	tree rules
2	is	should	wheel's body as wheel's shroud					for the burial; ready 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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