The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 85
It is a great risk, and to go is not wise.
Who acts: road · What happens: be, go, not be · To what, where: great risk
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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 | 5 risk | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 risk | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 risk | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 risk | amod |
| 5 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wise | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wise | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 and | advcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wise | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wise | advmod |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 risk | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 risk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | road | a great risk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not is | present | road not said here | wise 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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