The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 66

‘The wind is really cutting one’s very life out!

Who acts: wind · What happens: cut out · To what, where: life

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 (wind), 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	_	6 cutting	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cutting	aux
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 cutting	advmod
6	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ’s	nsubj
8	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cutting	ccomp
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 life	advmod
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	6 cutting	compound:prt
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cutting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut out	present · progressive	the wind	life					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector life=Eventuality

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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