The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 93
“It is only by a miracle that I am here myself.”
Who acts: step, miracle · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step, miracle), 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 | _ | 7 miracle | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 miracle | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 miracle | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 miracle | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 miracle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 miracle | det |
| 7 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 here | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 here | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 miracle | acl |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 here | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 miracle | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 miracle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | step | by a miracle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a miracle | myself obl:unmarked; here 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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