The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 38
‘Oh! isn’t there a quicker way of knowing than that?’
Who acts: quicker way · What happens: be, know · To what, where: quicker way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quicker way), 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 way | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 way | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 way | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 knowing | case |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 knowing | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a quicker way | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | a quicker way not said here | than a quicker way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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