The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 68
“I will try,” said Signy; “it won’t be an easy matter, but it’s worth while taking some trouble to have a little peace.”
Who acts: Signy, it · What happens: try, say, not be, take, have · To what, where: easy matter, trouble, little peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy, it), 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 | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Signy | Signy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 12 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 matter | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 matter | cop |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 matter | det |
| 16 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 matter | amod |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’s | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 ’s | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ’s | nsubj |
| 21 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | conj |
| 22 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ’s | xcomp |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 taking | mark |
| 24 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 ’s | advcl |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 trouble | det |
| 26 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taking | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 taking | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 peace | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 peace | amod |
| 31 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | future | Signy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Signy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | future | it | a easy matter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | gerund | some trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | a little peace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
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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