The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 240
But the apple was so cunningly made that only the red cheek was poisonous.
Who acts: apple, red cheek · What happens: be, make
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, red cheek), 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 | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cunningly | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 cunningly | advmod |
| 6 | cunningly | cunningly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apple | acl |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 poisonous | mark |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 cheek | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cheek | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cheek | amod |
| 12 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poisonous | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 poisonous | cop |
| 14 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the apple not said here | cunningly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the apple | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the red cheek | poisonous 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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