The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 41
‘Of course, this creature is quite different, and not at all like the little hare.’
Who acts: creature · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 different | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 different | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 course | punct |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 creature | det |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 different | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 different | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 different | advmod |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 all | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 all | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 different | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 hare | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hare | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hare | amod |
| 18 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 all | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 different | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this creature | of course; different property | 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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