The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 100

To be sure there was a bridge, but, even if it had not been guarded by sleeping lions, it was plainly not meant for man to walk on.

Who acts: bridge, sleeping lions · What happens: be, not guard, sleep, not mean, walk on · To what, where: bridge

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge, sleeping lions), 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	To	to	PART	_	3 sure	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 guarded	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 guarded	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 guarded	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	17 guarded	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 guarded	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 guarded	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 guarded	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 guarded	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 guarded	aux:pass
17	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sure	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 lions	case
19	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lions	amod
20	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 guarded	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 meant	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meant	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 meant	aux:pass
24	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	26 meant	advmod
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 meant	advmod
26	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sure	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 man	case
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meant	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 walk	mark
30	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 meant	xcomp
31	on	on	ADV	_	30 walk	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
2	be	past	a bridge		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not guard a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	sleeping lions	bridge			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4	sleep	gerund					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not mean	past · passive		bridge		for man; plainly property	tree rules
6	walk on not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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