The Red Fairy Book, Jack Sells the Cow, sentence 17
‘It would be easy to climb it,’ thought Jack.
Who acts: easy · What happens: be, climb, think · To what, where: ladder, Jack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack Sells the Cow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (easy), 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 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 climb | mark |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | csubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climb | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | ladder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | easy | Jack | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jack=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 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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