The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 122

There is a huge cheese about the size of a mill wheel.

Who acts: huge cheese · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge cheese), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cheese	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cheese	amod
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 size	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cheese	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 wheel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wheel	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wheel	compound
12	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 size	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a huge cheese about the size of a mill wheel			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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