The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 70
This was not, however, the view taken by the Prince.
Who acts: This · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: view
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 view | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 view | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 view | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 view | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 view | det |
| 8 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 view | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obl:agent |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 view | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | This | the view | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | participle | the view not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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