The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 196

It was not at all easy to fill the milk-can, which was large and round.

Who acts: It · What happens: not be, fill, be

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 (It), 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	6 easy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 easy	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 easy	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 easy	advmod
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fill	mark
8	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easy	csubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 can	det
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 can	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 milk	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fill	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 large	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 large	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 large	cop
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 easy	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 round	cc
18	round	round	ADV	_	16 large	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	past	It	easy property	tree rules
2	fill	to-infinitive			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past		large property	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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