The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 37
But, somehow or other, this advice did not quite please the King.
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 somehow | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 somehow | punct |
| 3 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 other | cc |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 somehow | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 King | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 advice | det |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 King | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 King | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 King | advmod |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 King | advmod |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 14 King | discourse |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 somehow | vocative |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 somehow | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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