The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 244
‘As white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony, this time the Dwarfs won’t be able to bring you back to life.’
Who acts: time · What happens: not be, bring back · To what, where: you, life
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 white | advmod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 snow | case |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 red | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 red | case |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 white | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 blood | case |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 red | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 black | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 black | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 black | advmod |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 white | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 ebony | case |
| 16 | ebony | ebony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 black | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 able | punct |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 able | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Dwarfs | det |
| 21 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 time | appos |
| 22 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 able | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 able | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 able | cop |
| 25 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 white | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 able | xcomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 bring | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | this time | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring back | to-infinitive | this time not said here | you | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/244/