The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 24
And that’s how it will be all my life long, whenever I meet anybody.
Who acts: that, fortune, I · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: life, anybody
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, fortune, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 how | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 how | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 how | cop |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 life | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 life | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 life | cop |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 life | det:predet |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 how | nsubj |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 life | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meet | punct |
| 13 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 meet | nsubj |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 life | parataxis |
| 16 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 meet | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 how | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | fortune | my life | long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | meet | present | I | anybody | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Co-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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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