The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 18
'It is not an easy task; but I will try to finish it in a fortnight,' replied the youth.
Who acts: ointment, I, easy task · What happens: not be, try, finish, reply · To what, where: easy task, task, youth
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ointment, I, easy task), 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 task | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 task | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 task | det |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 task | amod |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 try | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 try | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 try | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 try | aux |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 task | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 finish | mark |
| 14 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 try | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finish | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fortnight | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fortnight | det |
| 18 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finish | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 task | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 task | punct |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 youth | det |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 replied | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | ointment | a easy task | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | future | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | finish not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | task | fortnight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | a easy task | the youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=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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