The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 45

“On the contrary quite, there is only too much of it.

Who acts: much · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much), 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	_	4 contrary	punct
2	On	on	ADP	_	4 contrary	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 contrary	det
4	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 contrary	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 contrary	conj
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 is	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 much	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 contrary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	much of nose			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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