The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 117

Perhaps after all this dreadful thing was not true.

Who acts: dreadful thing · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful thing), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	9 true	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 true	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 thing	det:predet
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	det
5	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 true	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 true	advmod
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	all dreadful thing					perhaps, true 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 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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