The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 57

It has just struck me what a good tree it would be to cut my new snow-shoes out of.”

Who acts: tree · What happens: strike, be · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 struck	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 struck	advmod
4	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 struck	obj
6	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	9 tree	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cut	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cut	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cut	mark
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 struck	parataxis
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoes	nmod:poss
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shoes	amod
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shoes	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 snow	punct
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	14 cut	advmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 out	fixed
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present · perfect	tree	me					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent i=Patient tree=Result
2	is	would	tree					cut 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 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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