The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 21
‘No matter what happens, I’ll not go out to-night in such weather as this.’
Who acts: matter, I · What happens: happen, not go out · To what, where: matter, such weather
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, I), 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 | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happens | nsubj |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 matter | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happens | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 go | advmod |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 weather | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 weather | amod |
| 17 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | no matter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not go out | future | I | no matter | such weather | night | as this; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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