The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 20
It is not difficult to get rid of this element when it does occur in popular tales.
Who acts: nature · What happens: not be, get, occur · To what, where: popular tales
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nature), 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 difficult | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 difficult | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 difficult | advmod |
| 4 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 difficult | csubj |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 element | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 element | det |
| 10 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rid | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 occur | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 occur | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 occur | aux |
| 14 | occur | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tales | case |
| 16 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | amod |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 occur | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | occur | present · do-support | nature | popular tales | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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