The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 47
Is she not a miracle of beauty and grace?
Who acts: etiquette · What happens: not be · To what, where: miracle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (etiquette), 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 | 5 miracle | cop |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 miracle | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 miracle | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 miracle | det |
| 5 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beauty | case |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miracle | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grace | cc |
| 9 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beauty | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 miracle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | etiquette | a miracle | of beauty and grace | 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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