The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 53
'That is a very clever trick of yours.
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: clever trick
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 trick | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 trick | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trick | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 clever | advmod |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trick | amod |
| 7 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 yours | case |
| 9 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 trick | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a clever trick | of yours | 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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