The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 96
‘It is not so easy as it looks,’ rejoined the Groac’h, smiling, ‘but take it, and try your luck.’
Who acts: net, Groac’h · What happens: not be, look, rejoin, smile, take, try · To what, where: net, luck
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (net, Groac’h), 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 | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 easy | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 easy | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rejoined | parataxis |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 looks | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 12 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Groac’h | det |
| 14 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 take | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 smiling | punct |
| 16 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Groac’h | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rejoined | ccomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 try | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 try | cc |
| 24 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 take | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 luck | nmod:poss |
| 26 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 try | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | present | net | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | rejoin | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | smile | gerund | the Groac’h not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | the Groac’h | net | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | try | infinitive | the Groac’h not said here | your luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
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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