The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 52
'It may not be as impossible as you think,' answered the queen. '
Who acts: best, you · What happens: not be, think, answer · To what, where: queen
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 (best, you), 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 impossible | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 impossible | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 impossible | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 impossible | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 impossible | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 impossible | advmod |
| 7 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 impossible | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 impossible | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 impossible | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 impossible | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | may | best = good | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | best = good not said here | the queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality |
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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