The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 8
The easiest way to get it is by the help of a black woodpecker.
Who acts: easiest way · What happens: get, be · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (easiest way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 way | acl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | cop |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 help | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 help | det |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woodpecker | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woodpecker | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woodpecker | amod |
| 14 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the easiest way not said here | way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the easiest way | by the help; of a black woodpecker | 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 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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