The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 153
It was sticky with being exposed to the hot sun, and with a very little effort it parted from the paper.
Who acts: letter · What happens: be, expose, part · To what, where: hot sun, little effort
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | 3 sticky | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sticky | cop |
| 3 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 6 exposed | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 exposed | aux:pass |
| 6 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sticky | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sun | amod |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exposed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 effort | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 effort | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 effort | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 effort | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 effort | amod |
| 17 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sticky | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 parted | nsubj |
| 19 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 effort | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 paper | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 paper | det |
| 22 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 parted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sticky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | letter | sticky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expose | gerund · passive | letter not said here | the hot sun | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to sun=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | part | past | letter | a little effort not said here | from the paper | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent effort=Patient from paper=Co-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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