The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 84
It was sweet to taste, but afterwards was as bitter as gall.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, taste
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sweet | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sweet | cop |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 taste | mark |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sweet | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bitter | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 bitter | cc |
| 8 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 11 bitter | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bitter | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 bitter | advmod |
| 11 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sweet | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 gall | case |
| 13 | gall | gall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bitter | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | taste | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | as gall; afterwards, bitter 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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