The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 44
Ah! it is no wonder if the farm is ruined.
Who acts: box, wonder · What happens: be, ruin · To what, where: wonder, farm
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (box, wonder), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 wonder | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wonder | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonder | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 wonder | det |
| 6 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 ruined | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 farm | det |
| 9 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruined | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ruined | aux:pass |
| 11 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wonder | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | box | no wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ruin a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | no wonder not said here | the farm | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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