The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 93
‘Here,’ said the Fairy, ‘is a little task which it will take all your prisoner’s skill and patience to accomplish.
Who acts: ‘, little task · What happens: say, be, take, accomplish · To what, where: Fairy, little task, skill · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (‘, little 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 task | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 task | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 task | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 task | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 task | amod |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 task | acl:relcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 skill | det:predet |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 20 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 skill | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 prisoner | case |
| 22 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 patience | cc |
| 24 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 skill | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 accomplish | mark |
| 26 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | ‘ | a little task | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | future | a little task | your prisoner's skill and patience | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | accomplish | to-infinitive | a little task not said here | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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