The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 42
It would be a shame to leave the book to be torn up.
Who acts: cheese · What happens: be, leave, tear up · To what, where: shame, book
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheese), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shame | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shame | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shame | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shame | det |
| 5 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shame | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 torn | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 torn | aux:pass |
| 12 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 book | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 torn | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | cheese | a shame | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the book | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tear up | to-infinitive · passive | the book not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V» |
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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