The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 59
‘But it will not be easy to get him, for he is underground.
Who acts: Dapplegrim · What happens: not be, get, be · To what, where: Dapplegrim
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Dapplegrim), 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 | _ | 7 easy | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 easy | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 easy | expl |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 easy | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 easy | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easy | cop |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easy | csubj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 is | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easy | conj |
| 15 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 14 is | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Dapplegrim | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | present | Dapplegrim | underground property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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