The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 73
It is not so easy as one thinks to row to Asia without oars.
Who acts: one · What happens: not be, think, row · To what, where: Asia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 easy | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 easy | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 thinks | mark |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thinks | nsubj |
| 8 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 row | mark |
| 10 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thinks | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Asia | case |
| 12 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 row | obl |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 oars | case |
| 14 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 row | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | one | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | row | to-infinitive | Asia | without oars | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to asia=Trajectory |
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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