The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 15
There is no luck in this house--no luck at all!’
Who acts: luck · What happens: be · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 luck | det |
| 4 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 luck | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 luck | det |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | appos |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 luck | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 luck | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no luck | this house; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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