The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 40
They think that to write a new fairy tale is easy work.
Who acts: Longman, new fairy tale · What happens: think, write, be · To what, where: easy work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Longman, new fairy tale), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 write | mark |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 write | mark |
| 5 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tale | amod |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tale | compound |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 work | cop |
| 11 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 work | amod |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 write | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Longman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | write | to-infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a new fairy tale | easy work | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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