The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 114
And, besides, it is so different just eating a little now and then.'
Who acts: mosque · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mosque), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 different | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 different | punct |
| 3 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 8 different | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 besides | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 different | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 different | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 different | advmod |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 eating | advmod |
| 10 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 different | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eating | obj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 eating | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 then | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 now | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 different | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mosque | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | mosque not said here | a little | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
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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