The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 17
Anyhow, it is the best we can do.’
Who acts: apple, we · What happens: be, do
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, we), 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 | Anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 6 best | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Anyhow | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 best | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 best | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 best | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 best | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 best | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | apple | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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