The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 95
Is not this such a place as would suit a hero for his home?
Who acts: this, place · What happens: not be, suit · To what, where: place, hero
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 (this, place), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | cop |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 place | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 place | nsubj |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 place | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 suit | mark |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 suit | aux |
| 9 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hero | det |
| 11 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suit | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suit | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | this | such place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suit | would | such place not said here | a hero | for Makoma's home | 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 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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