The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 62
‘It is so hard to leave the world and go out into the darkness.’
What happens: be, leave, go out · To what, where: world, darkness
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: 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 | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hard | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 darkness | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 darkness | det |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go out | infinitive | the darkness | out property | vn interact-36.6 «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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