The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 63

‘This is not common wood,’ answered the other.

Who acts: This, common wood · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: common wood, other

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, common wood), 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	_	6 wood	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 wood	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wood	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wood	advmod
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	This	common wood					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	common wood	the other					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality

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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