The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 38
But it was no use; there was not a sign of the pigs.
Who acts: earth, use · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: use, sign
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, use), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 use | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sign | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sign | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sign | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sign | det |
| 11 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pigs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pigs | det |
| 14 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sign | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | earth | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | no use | a sign | of the pigs | 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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