The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 64

It cannot be such a very difficult matter.’

What happens: not be · To what, where: difficult matter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 matter	expl
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 matter	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 matter	cop
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 matter	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 matter	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 difficult	advmod
8	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 matter	amod
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 matter	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	can		such difficult matter					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 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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