The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 140
He is so beautiful and so good to mortals.’
Who acts: Sun · What happens: be
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 (Sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 good | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mortals | case |
| 9 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 good | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sun | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Sun not said here | to mortals | 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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