The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 37
‘That is even better than sailing over the sea!
Who acts: That · What happens: be, sail · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 better | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 sailing | mark |
| 7 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 better | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sailing | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sail | gerund | That not said here | the sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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