The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 58
‘It will be easy for me to compass this, though thou mayest think it will not be easy,’ Kilweh answered him.
Who acts: this, thou, Kilweh · What happens: be, compass, think, not be, answer · To what, where: Drudwyn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, thou, Kilweh), 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 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 compass | mark |
| 9 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easy | conj |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 compass | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 think | mark |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 think | nsubj |
| 14 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 easy | expl |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 easy | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 easy | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 easy | cop |
| 20 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 think | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 answered | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 answered | punct |
| 23 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 answered | nsubj |
| 24 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 easy | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 answered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | for me; easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | compass | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | may | thou | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | future | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | Kilweh | Drudwyn | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=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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