The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 22
Supposing that that nut and no other was able to cause its shrinking!
Who acts: nut, nose · What happens: suppose, be, cause, shrink · To what, where: shrinking · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nut, nose), 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 | Supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 able | mark |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nut | det |
| 4 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 able | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 other | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nut | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Supposing | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cause | mark |
| 11 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shrinking | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shrinking | shrinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supposing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | that nut | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | to-infinitive | that nut not said here | nose's shrinking | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition shrinking=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shrink | nose | nom shrinking «event transitive»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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