The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 135

‘Yes, on the whole those were very happy times.’

What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	11 times	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 times	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 times	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	11 times	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 times	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 times	det
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 times	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 happy	advmod
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 times	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 times	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					on the whole happy times		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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