The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 40
‘Is it possible that you are really so foolish as to despise money?
Who acts: voice, you · What happens: be, despise · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, you), 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 possible | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 foolish | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 foolish | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 foolish | cop |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 foolish | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 foolish | advmod |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 possible | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 despise | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 despise | mark |
| 13 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 foolish | advcl |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 despise | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | voice | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | despise | to-infinitive | you not said here | money | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
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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