The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 53
'Is it not hard to meet him in this shape,' wept she, 'when we both love each other so much?'
Who acts: we · What happens: not be, meet, weep, love · To what, where: light, shape, Eglantine, each
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hard | expl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 shape | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 shape | det |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 14 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | conj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wept | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 love | advmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 love | nsubj |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 love | nsubj |
| 21 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | advcl |
| 22 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 21 love | obj |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 each | fixed |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 love | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | light | this shape | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | Eglantine | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | present | we | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
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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