The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 37
But the task is a very difficult one, and full of peril, Jack.
Who acts: task · What happens: be · To what, where: difficult one
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 one | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 task | det |
| 3 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 difficult | advmod |
| 7 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 full | cc |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 peril | case |
| 13 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jack | punct |
| 15 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 peril | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the task | a difficult one | 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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