The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 1
It is hard to have anything to do with the good people without getting a mark from them.
What happens: be, have, do, get · To what, where: anything, mark
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hard | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | csubj |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 anything | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obl |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 getting | mark |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 do | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mark | det |
| 16 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 getting | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 getting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | anything not said here | with the good people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | a mark | from people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mark=Theme from they=Source |
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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