The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 23
But Hans was hard to kill, as we shall see.
Who acts: Hans, we · What happens: be, kill, see
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, we), 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 | _ | 4 hard | cc |
| 2 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kill | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hans | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | shall | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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