The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 143

And so, of course, it WAS just as good as before.

Who acts: course · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 good	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	2 so	fixed
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 good	nsubj
8	WAS	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 good	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 before	case
13	before	before	ADV	_	11 good	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	course					good 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 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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