The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 27

In fact, it is so difficult that there is only one way of proving it to the king.'

Who acts: difficult, one way · What happens: be, prove · To what, where: fact, one way, way

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difficult, one way), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 difficult	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 difficult	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 difficult	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 difficult	advmod
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	nsubj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 is	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 way	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 way	nummod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 proving	mark
15	proving	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 way	acl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proving	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 king	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proving	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			fact	difficult property	tree rules
2	is a	present	difficult	one way			tree rules
3	prove	gerund	one way not said here	way		to the king	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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