The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 136
No Christian folk have been here for more than a hundred years.’
Who acts: Christian folk · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian folk), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 folk | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 folk | amod |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 here | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 here | cop |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 folk | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 hundred | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hundred | det |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 folk | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 folk | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 folk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | no Christian folk for hundred years not said here | here 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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