The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 82
‘It is a wonder that such a man as thou shouldst be without a companion.’
Who acts: sword, wonder · What happens: be · To what, where: wonder
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 (sword, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonder | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wonder | det |
| 5 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 companion | nsubj |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 man | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 companion | nsubj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 thou | case |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 man | nmod |
| 12 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 companion | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 companion | cop |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 companion | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 companion | det |
| 16 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wonder | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sword | a wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | should | a wonder | without a companion | tree rules |
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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