The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 144
It is so delightful to teach those one loves!
Who acts: earth, one · What happens: be, teach, love · To what, where: those
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 delightful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 delightful | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 delightful | advmod |
| 4 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 teach | mark |
| 6 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delightful | advcl |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 teach | obj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 loves | nsubj |
| 9 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 those | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | earth | delightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | earth not said here | those | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | love | present | one | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/144/