The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 96
Each is perfect; they are all made according to rule.
Who acts: Each, flakes · What happens: be, make, accord, rule · To what, where: flakes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, flakes), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 perfect | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 perfect | cop |
| 3 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 perfect | parataxis |
| 9 | according | accord | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 made | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rule | mark |
| 11 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 according | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perfect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Each | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | flakes = flake | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | flakes = flake not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rule | to-infinitive | flakes = flake not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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