The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 54
However, that matter could be settled later.
What happens: settle · To what, where: matter
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: 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 settled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 settled | mark |
| 4 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 settled | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 settled | aux:pass |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 settled | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | could · passive | matter | however, late property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=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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