The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 52
‘Well, that will not be a very hard thing to do,’ thought the youth.
Who acts: that, hard thing · What happens: not be, do, ', think · To what, where: hard thing, youth
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, hard thing), 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 | _ | 11 thing | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 thing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 thing | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 thing | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thing | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 hard | advmod |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ’ | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thing | acl:relcl |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | future | that | a hard thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ' | infinitive | a hard thing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | a hard thing | the youth | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot youth=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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