The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 106
'This is the easiest thing I have been set to do,' thought the girl, who was a good spinner.
Who acts: This, easiest thing, girl · What happens: be, set, do, think · To what, where: easiest thing, I, girl, good spinner
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, easiest thing, girl), 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 | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 set | aux:pass |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spinner | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spinner | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spinner | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spinner | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spinner | amod |
| 23 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the easiest thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the easiest thing | the girl and a good spinner | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the girl and a good spinner | a good spinner | 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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