The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 70

‘Is it likely to be a fruit or a flower?

Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: fruit

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 likely	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 likely	nsubj
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 fruit	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fruit	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fruit	det
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likely	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 flower	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 flower	det
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fruit	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					likely property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a fruit or a flower					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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