The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 66
“Now, surely it is not possible to grow such pears with deep snow on the ground?” cried the king.
Who acts: it, king · What happens: not be, grow, cry · To what, where: such pears, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, king), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 possible | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 possible | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 8 possible | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 possible | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 possible | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 possible | advmod |
| 8 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cried | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 grow | mark |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 possible | csubj |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pears | amod |
| 12 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grow | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 snow | case |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 snow | amod |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 possible | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 possible | punct |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | it | now | possible, surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow in a quote | to-infinitive | such pears | the ground | with deep snow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pear=Patient with snow=Instrument | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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