The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 120
Was there ever anything so strange?
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 there | cop |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 anything | advmod |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 there | obl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 strange | advmod |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anything | amod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | anything obl; there property | tree rules |
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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