The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 23
“Well, perhaps it is very difficult to change into a lion.
What happens: be, change · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 difficult | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 difficult | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 difficult | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 difficult | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 difficult | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 difficult | advmod |
| 8 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 change | mark |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 difficult | csubj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 lion | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lion | det |
| 13 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | difficult, perhaps property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change in a quote | to-infinitive | into a lion result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into lion=Result |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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