The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 9
But the perils are great--too great for you to overcome.'
Who acts: perils, you · What happens: be, overcome
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perils, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 great | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 perils | det |
| 3 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 great | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | cop |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 great | conj |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 overcome | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 overcome | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 overcome | mark |
| 12 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 great | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the perils | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the perils not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | overcome | to-infinitive | you | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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