The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 119
But the nyamatsane was not so easy to find as the woman had hoped.
Who acts: nyamatsane · What happens: not be, find, hope · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsane), 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 | _ | 7 easy | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nyamatsane | det |
| 3 | nyamatsane | nyamatsane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 easy | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 easy | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 easy | advmod |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 easy | csubj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 hoped | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hoped | aux |
| 14 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 find | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the nyamatsane | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hope | past · perfect · passive | the woman | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/119/