The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 82
“Oh! he will never be able to do that,” thought she; “it is much more difficult than the hill.”
Who acts: room · What happens: not be, do, think, be · To what, where: that, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room), 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 able | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 able | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 able | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 able | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 difficult | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 difficult | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 difficult | expl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 difficult | cop |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 difficult | advmod |
| 22 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 hill | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hill | det |
| 25 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 difficult | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 difficult | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | future | room | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | room not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | bridge | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | than the hill; difficult 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 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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