The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 177
But this Snow-man was different: how could he feel happy?
Who acts: Snow man, man · What happens: be, feel
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow man, man), 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 different | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | det |
| 3 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Snow | punct |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 different | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 different | cop |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 feel | advmod |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 feel | aux |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 different | conj |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feel | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this Snow man | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | could | man | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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