The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 65
It is not to be sold with the animal as is usually the case.'
What happens: not be, be · To what, where: bridle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sold | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sold | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sold | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sold | aux:pass |
| 6 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 animal | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animal | det |
| 9 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sold | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 case | case |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 case | cop |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 case | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 case | det |
| 14 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sold | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sold | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · passive | bridle | with the animal; sell property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | as the case; usually property | tree rules |
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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