The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 14
‘The day is so warm, and the sun’s rays so scorching, that the water in the pond looks very cool and inviting.
Who acts: day, rays, water, sun · What happens: be, scorch, look, invite, ray
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, rays, water, sun), 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 warm | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warm | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 warm | advmod |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scorching | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 scorching | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rays | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 12 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scorching | nsubj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 scorching | advmod |
| 14 | scorching | scorch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 warm | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looks | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 looks | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looks | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pond | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pond | det |
| 21 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | nmod |
| 22 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 scorching | parataxis |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 cool | advmod |
| 24 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looks | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 inviting | cc |
| 26 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cool | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the day | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scorch | gerund | the sun's rays | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | look | present | the water in the pond | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | invite | gerund | the water in the pond not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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 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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