The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 19
'It certainly is a great pity he is so different from these beautiful darlings.
Who acts: duckling, rest · What happens: be · To what, where: great pity, beautiful darlings
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duckling, rest), 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 pity | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 pity | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pity | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pity | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pity | amod |
| 7 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 different | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 different | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 different | advmod |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pity | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 darlings | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 darlings | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 darlings | amod |
| 15 | darlings | darling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 different | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | duckling | a great pity | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | rest | a great pity not said here | this beautiful darlings | different 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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