The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 139
‘But how in the world is it possible for the Sun to be angry?
Who acts: world · What happens: be · To what, where: world
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 (world), 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 | _ | 9 possible | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 possible | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 possible | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 possible | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 possible | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 possible | nsubj |
| 9 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Sun | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 possible | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 angry | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 angry | cop |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 possible | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | world | the world | for the Sun; possible property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | world not said here | angry property | tree rules |
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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