The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 7
But Graciosa had no difficulty in guessing that it was Percinet.
Who acts: Graciosa, difficulty · What happens: have, guess, be · To what, where: difficulty, Percinet
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 (Graciosa, difficulty), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 difficulty | det |
| 5 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 guessing | mark |
| 7 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 Percinet | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Percinet | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Percinet | cop |
| 11 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 guessing | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Graciosa | no difficulty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | guess | gerund | Graciosa not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | difficulty | Percinet | 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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