The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 77
It certainly was his handwriting, but by no means his wishes.
Who acts: letter, no, Mark · What happens: be, mean, wish · To what, where: handwriting, wishes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter, no, Mark), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 handwriting | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 handwriting | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handwriting | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 handwriting | nmod:poss |
| 5 | handwriting | handwriting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 means | cc |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 means | mark |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 handwriting | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handwriting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | letter | Mark's handwriting | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | no | Mark's wishes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wish | Mark | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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