The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 138

‘Otherwise I should be hard indeed to please.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, please

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 hard	punct
2	Otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hard	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	cop
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 please	mark
9	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	I					hard, indeed, otherwise property	tree rules
2	please	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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