The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 52

‘Nothing was that is, and the world was not a world when I was born,’ said she.

Who acts: world, Nothing · What happens: be, not be, bear, say · To what, where: that, world, I · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (world, Nothing), 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	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 said	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 that	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Nothing	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 that	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 world	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 world	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 world	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 world	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 world	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Nothing	appos
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 born	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 born	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 born	aux:pass
17	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 world	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		that	tree rules
2	not is a	past	the world	a world	tree rules
3	bear	past · passive		I	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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