The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 52
To be sure I’ve emptied a whole barrel of wine, but what is one drop on a hot stone?’
What happens: be, empty · To what, where: I, one drop, hot stone
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 sure | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 emptied | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 emptied | aux:pass |
| 6 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 barrel | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 barrel | amod |
| 9 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emptied | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wine | case |
| 11 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 barrel | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drop | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 drop | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 drop | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drop | cop |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 drop | nummod |
| 17 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 stone | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stone | amod |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drop | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | empty | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | one drop | a hot stone | 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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