The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 21
So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales.
Who acts: battle, that · What happens: be · To what, where: moral
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ought | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ought | nsubj |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 whole | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 be | mark |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ought | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whole | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 whole | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 whole | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whole | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 whole | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 whole | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whole | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 whole | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 whole | cop |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 be | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 whole | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 moral | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 moral | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 moral | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 moral | cop |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 moral | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moral | det |
| 25 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whole | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tales | case |
| 27 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tales | compound |
| 28 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 moral | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | to-infinitive | battle not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | ought | battle | whole property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | future | battle not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | all moral | of fairy tales | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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