The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 123
‘How was it possible for you, a mortal, to get hither to the house of the Moon?’
Who acts: Moon · What happens: be, get
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon), 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 | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 possible | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | nsubj |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mortal | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mortal | det |
| 10 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 possible | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mortal | conj |
| 14 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Moon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Moon | det |
| 20 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Moon | for you; possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Moon not said here | to the house of the Moon result; hither property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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