The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 35
Then they would know what a lot of trouble it takes to get wood for their fires.’
Who acts: lives, it · What happens: know, take, get, fire · To what, where: lot, wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lives, it), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 takes | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lot | nmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 takes | csubj |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fires | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fires | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | would | lives = life | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | present | it | a lot of trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | wood | for lives's fires | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for fire=Source | ||||
| 4 | fire | lives = life | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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