The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 18
Could that really be his wife--that beautiful, beautiful creature?
Who acts: that · What happens: be, creature · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | aux |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 wife | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wife | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 creature | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 creature | nsubj |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creature | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creature | amod |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | could | that | prince's wife and beautiful beautiful creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creature | that | 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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