The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 22
“What is to hinder anyone from cutting off that chain and digging out those carbuncles, and making himself rich for life?”
What happens: be, cut off, dig out, make · To what, where: anyone, chain, carbuncles, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 anyone | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 anyone | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 anyone | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 anyone | mark |
| 5 | hinder | hind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 anyone | amod |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 cutting | mark |
| 8 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 anyone | advcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cutting | compound:prt |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 chain | det |
| 11 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cutting | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 digging | cc |
| 13 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cutting | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 digging | compound:prt |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 carbuncles | det |
| 16 | carbuncles | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 digging | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rich | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rich | cc |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 rich | csubj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anyone | amod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rich | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 anyone | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 anyone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | anyone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut off in a quote | gerund | that chain | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector chain=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dig out in a quote | gerund | that carbuncles | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent carbuncle=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | gerund | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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