The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 29
'It was a very difficult task, and the giant must certainly have killed her or she would have been back long ago,' remarked another.
Who acts: creature, Fish · What happens: be, kill, remark · To what, where: difficult task, giant, another
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, Fish), 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 task | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 task | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 task | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 task | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 task | amod |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 13 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 15 killed | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 killed | aux |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 task | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 back | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 back | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 back | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 back | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 back | cop |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 ago | advmod |
| 24 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 killed | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 remarked | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 remarked | punct |
| 27 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 task | conj |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 remarked | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 task | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | creature | a difficult task | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | must · perfect · passive | the giant | ago, certainly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | would · perfect | Fish | back property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | participle | creature not said here | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
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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