The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 26
As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: difficult question
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 fairies | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 are | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairies | cop |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 fairies | advmod |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 fairies | det |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 question | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 question | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 question | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 question | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 question | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 question | det |
| 15 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 question | amod |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fairies | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | as any fairies or a difficult question | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | that | a difficult question | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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